Climate Change - A Time Bomb!
Fayaz Mohamed F on Fri Oct 29 2021Climate change and sustainable development are inextricably linked. The availability of fundamental requirements such as freshwater, food security, and energy will be impacted by climate change, while attempts to address climate change, both through adaptation and mitigation, will similarly inform and define the global development agenda. Poor and emerging countries, particularly the least developed, would be disproportionately affected and ill-equipped to deal with the expected shocks to their social, economic, and ecological systems.
The first political reaction, internationally, to climate change started in 1992 at “Rio Convention” with the adoption of UNFCCC. This agreement established a framework for action aimed at stabilising greenhouse gas (GHG) concentrations in the atmosphere in order to avoid “harmful anthropogenic interference with the climate system”. The UNFCCC presently has a universal membership of 197 parties and in 2015, the conference of parties convened in Paris adopted the Paris Agreement which aims to keep the global temperature below 2oC for this century with the goal to limit the temperature rise to 1.5oC above pre-industrial levels. Member parties affirm their resolve to protect the planet from deterioration and take immediate action on climate change in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Climate change is also identified as "one of the greatest challenges of our time" in paragraph 14 of the Agenda, with concerns that "its detrimental repercussions weaken the ability of all countries to achieve sustainable development." Climate change consequences such as rising global temperatures, sea level rise, ocean acidification, and other effects are wreaking havoc on coastal areas and low-lying coastal countries, including many under developed countries and small developing Islands.
Global per capita energy consumption climbed from 1.3 to 1.9 tonnes of petroleum equivalent between 1965 and 2015, while individual average consumption is three to four times greater in industrialised countries, where progress in energy efficiency has only been able to slow demand rise. Due to rising livelihoods and filling populace for the most part in urban regions in emerging nations, at the global level, interest for energy is expected to increment by 25% in 2040, and the expansion could be twice as huge notwithstanding proceeded with enhancements in energy efficiency. As indicated by the International Energy Agency, if the annual interest in renewables doesn't double, and proceeds at the current speed, petroleum derivatives will hold a prevalent job in providing up to 78% of absolute energy in 2030, and a comparable offer even in 2050. The immediate result will be the constancy of the current negative pattern of increasing greenhouse gas emissions, which will make it difficult to arrive at the Paris Agreement objective.
In a nutshell, steps should be taken in full force to implement projects and policies in a greater extent that ‘climate change’ and ‘global warming’ moves out from school textbooks to every corner shops around the town, bringing into light the intensity of harm the humans are contributing by committing an action as silly as disposing a toffee cover carelessly, to work together as one specie to keep the life on this beautiful planet for the generations to come.
Climate Change - A Time Bomb!
Climate change and sustainable development are inextricably linked. The availability of fundamental requirements such as freshwater, food security, and energy will be impacted by climate change, while attempts to address climate change, both through adaptation and mitigation, will similarly inform and define the global development agenda. Poor and emerging countries, particularly the least developed, would be disproportionately affected and ill-equipped to deal with the expected shocks to their social, economic, and ecological systems.
The first political reaction, internationally, to climate change started in 1992 at “Rio Convention” with the adoption of UNFCCC. This agreement established a framework for action aimed at stabilising greenhouse gas (GHG) concentrations in the atmosphere in order to avoid “harmful anthropogenic interference with the climate system”. The UNFCCC presently has a universal membership of 197 parties and in 2015, the conference of parties convened in Paris adopted the Paris Agreement which aims to keep the global temperature below 2oC for this century with the goal to limit the temperature rise to 1.5oC above pre-industrial levels. Member parties affirm their resolve to protect the planet from deterioration and take immediate action on climate change in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Climate change is also identified as "one of the greatest challenges of our time" in paragraph 14 of the Agenda, with concerns that "its detrimental repercussions weaken the ability of all countries to achieve sustainable development." Climate change consequences such as rising global temperatures, sea level rise, ocean acidification, and other effects are wreaking havoc on coastal areas and low-lying coastal countries, including many under developed countries and small developing Islands.
Global per capita energy consumption climbed from 1.3 to 1.9 tonnes of petroleum equivalent between 1965 and 2015, while individual average consumption is three to four times greater in industrialised countries, where progress in energy efficiency has only been able to slow demand rise. Due to rising livelihoods and filling populace for the most part in urban regions in emerging nations, at the global level, interest for energy is expected to increment by 25% in 2040, and the expansion could be twice as huge notwithstanding proceeded with enhancements in energy efficiency. As indicated by the International Energy Agency, if the annual interest in renewables doesn't double, and proceeds at the current speed, petroleum derivatives will hold a prevalent job in providing up to 78% of absolute energy in 2030, and a comparable offer even in 2050. The immediate result will be the constancy of the current negative pattern of increasing greenhouse gas emissions, which will make it difficult to arrive at the Paris Agreement objective.
In a nutshell, steps should be taken in full force to implement projects and policies in a greater extent that ‘climate change’ and ‘global warming’ moves out from school textbooks to every corner shops around the town, bringing into light the intensity of harm the humans are contributing by committing an action as silly as disposing a toffee cover carelessly, to work together as one specie to keep the life on this beautiful planet for the generations to come.