Then compete to save the climate.
What if it is too late to save the climate by cutting greenhouse gas emissions?
"Cancun may have saved the process but it did not yet save the climate," said Greenpeace International Climate Policy Director Wendel Trio.
We are given easy household tips by campaigners and the government that will help "save the climate".
Greenpeace International Climate Policy Director Wendel Trio said: "Cancun may have saved the process but it did not yet save the climate.
As we edge close to the climate summit in Paris, I can say confidently that we can still save the climate, but we are running out of time.
Ultimately, the US will have to be persuaded back into the process, along with rapidly developing countries such as China and India, if sufficient reductions are to be made to save the climate.
Right now they are held to be essential but it seems entirely possible that in the future their transformation of land and seascapes will seem a neurotic irrelevance that never created enough electricity to seriously help save the climate.
It is as if a world that wishes to save the climate must learn to appreciate the beauty of nuclear energy - or "green energy", as Germany's Christian Democratic Union general secretary Ronald Pofalla has rechristened it.
They were most terrified of repeating the experience of Copenhagen in 2009, when a UN summit hailed as the last chance to save the climate ended in chaos and discord.
