United Nations Discussion

Today we did an interesting assignment in class which was not directly part of our study, but our teacher proposed it and we gladly chose to do it. We were divided into three different groups, developed countries, well developing and bad developing countries, according to the amount of people living in these areas. Each group recieved some basic information about their collective of countries. The goal was to discuss on a global scale what each type of country is able to accomplish to prevent climate change and stay under the targeted 2°C level.
We did have some time in our groups to discuss the possibilities of our regions in the following categories: year in which the peak emissions are reached, year in which the emissions will start to reduce, rate of emission reduction, rate of decreaseing deforestation and amount of money we can afford for the target $100 billion /year fund against climate change.
After each group agreed on their data the elected a representative of each group held a short presentation on what will be done and with a short reasoning. In the following we entered the data in a special program online (Simulation Tool). The tool we used is a simplified model, which calculates the future emissions, the increase in temperature and the sea level rise. Sadly we missed the 2°C goal in our first try. Nevertheless, we think we did good for the first try.
To improve we took a step back in the groups and discussed if we maybe can adapt our goals. After an exchange of arguments every area was more ambitious. After presenting the new targets we had a very intense discussion between the representatives backed up by their teams. The strongest disagreement was between the richest and the poorest people.
As a result we did not manage to reach the target on the second try either. We did better, but not good enough. From our opinion, the rich countries and the poor countires had very good to  very strong ambitions, but the good developing countries could do much better. They defended their right on prosperity for their own people, since the first world countries did the majr part in pollution.
In the end we did not reach our target and had over one meter in sea level rise. It became clear to us, that it is very hard to negotiate this topic inbetween almost 200 nations, but also that with better preparation and more time we probably could have reached the goal.
Let us hope the leaders in Marakech are having everything they need to reach an solid agreement.