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Oxfam said the US needed to make deeper emissions cuts to help keep warming below 2C.
So how hard would it be to keep warming to that level?
Science tells us global greenhouse gas emissions must peak no later than 2015 if we are to keep warming below 2 degrees and avoid dangerous climate change.
Asked if it was difficult to do that, to keep warming up, Rodriguez said it was a matter of being smart.
World leaders have pledged under the UNFCC to keep warming from exceeding 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels by the end of the century.
Nearly 200 countries agreed to keep warming below 2C, and work towards a 1.5C limit, during the Paris climate negotiations last month.
Campaigners said that would make it increasingly difficult to be sure the deal would manage to keep warming within the 2 degree threshold.
These risks will accelerate as the oceans warm faster: their temperature could rise four degrees celsius if we let the planet keep warming.
They want an agreement from Paris that would seek to keep warming at around 1C, which is about the current level of warming above pre-industrial levels.
Most countries have already submitted pledges to cut their emissions, but they are not enough to keep warming below dangerous levels.
To much fanfare, our governments unveiled a global climate deal that pledged to keep warming levels to 2C – or better yet, 1.5C.
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