What was the Copenhagen Climate Change Summit??
The UN meeting was the deadline for thrashing out a successor to the Kyoto Protocol, with the aim of preventing dangerous Global Warming. It went on for two weeks from 7 December 2009 and was the latest in a series that traced their origins to the 1992 Earth Summit, Rio De Jainero.
What's the bottom line??
Climate scientists are convinced the world must stop the growth in greenhouse gas emissions and start making them fall very soon. To have a chance of keeping warming under the dangerous 2C mark, cuts of 25%-40% relative to 1990 levels are needed,rising to 80-95% by 2050. So far, the offers on the table are way below these targets.
Who should make the cuts?
That is a crunch issue. The industrialized nations such as US, UK , Japan and others have emitted by far the most carbon and still emit vast amounts per person, so have the responsibility to make the deep cuts scientists demand. But emissions from emerging economies such as China and India are surging, and any global limit on carbon emissions needs curbs on these nations, too. Yet, per person, those nations have small carbon footprints and millions of people in deep poverty-400 million Indians live without electricity, for example. So China, India and others can argue they need to be allowed to continue to pollute for a while as they improve their citizens' lives. Balancing the responsibilities for cuts is a key part of the negotiations.
SO WHAT DO YOU THINK?? WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THE WORLD IF SUCH ISSUES PREVAIL AND NO SOLUTION IS FOUND???
People, please comment and let the world know it needs a change!
I totally agree with you if we don't take care of our environment then it would be completely destroyed !! But acc. to me the developed nations should take a serious step in order to save it as they are the ones emitting carbon footprints as early as the 1980's and they some how try to put the blame of rapid increase of global warming on developing countries like INDIA where a poor guy earns less then 50 DOLLARS a month and still remembers to water his plants quite ironic huh!!
ReplyDeleteso true Nishant!!! But in India, there is no uniformity in distribution of resources.. Some people have a lot of resources and so they waste... and others dont get to evn have proper food whole their lifetime!
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