A step back in time, but what’s changed?

The Paris Agreement was a milestone in history influencing the next decades. For the first time 195 nations committed to take action against climate change. The film gives insight behind closed doors of the negotiations and reveals the clash of forces which shape our future: national self-interest against destruction of whole countries, rich versus poor, victims against profiteers. A reflection of the global community told by high-ranking figures and leaks of the process. Can this agreement save our planet?

After 21 years of continuous failure in UN climate change negotiations 195 nations, 20,000 worldwide negotiators met at a private airport shielded by the military in the north of Paris for a last attempt to save our planet. Behind closed doors these delegates had to agree on the first global climate change agreement to operate for the next decades, a milestone in multilateral diplomacy. An agreement that would impact every human being on earth, born or unborn. A negotiation that would determine whether we as a species would survive.

“Guardians of the Earth” shows the battle towards this monumental agreement through the perspective of major players such as the head of the UNFCCC, fossil fuel-exporting countries and those most vulnerable to climate change.