Climate change in New Zealand the United States (when compared on 1990 levels), a number of environmental groups have noted that it is below the level recommended by scientists in order reduce the damage of anthropogenic climate change. Some groups in New Zealand have misunderstood the 2013 target, for example assuming that it replaced the target set in 2009. The Paris Climate Agreement negotiations began on 30 November and concluded 12 December 2015. The Paris Climate Agreement is the successor to the 1998 Kyoto Protocol and has a target to keep temperature rises within 2 degrees this century, with ambitions to reduce this temperature rise
Climate change in Vietnam by 2030. There are other critics on the government's climate change adaptive strategy. Some people believe that up to now government policies have focused on sector-wide assessments for the whole country and on “hard” adaptation measures—such as sea dikes, reinforced infrastructure, and durable buildings. Little attention has been paid to “soft” adaptation measures like increasing institutional capacity or the role of collective action and social capital in building resilience. Moreover, François Fortier(School of International Development and Global Studies, University of Ottawa) claims, in his essay, "Taking a climate chance: A procedural critique of Vietnam’s climate change strategy", that the government's