Climate change to two degrees to be at risk – lanacion.com (Argentina)

This is not to exceed two degrees; However, effort is titanic. At least six months before the expected Climate Change Summit to be held in November and December, representatives of 190 countries working in Bonn with the aim of preparing the draft agreement to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases.

At the same time, also in Germany, the group of seven of the richest countries in the world signed a statement in the Bavarian Palace Elmou to agree prevent global warming exceeding two degrees Celsius on average in relation to the values ​​of the preindustrial era.

As you said yesterday the president of the Supreme Court of Justice, Ricardo Lorenzetti, during the ceremony to mark World Environment Day, celebrated every 5 June, “the environmental problem affects the lives of those directly, and the hardest hit are the vulnerable.”

It is noteworthy that during the 10,000 years before the eighteenth century, the concentration the Land of CO2 (carbon dioxide gas whose presence in the atmosphere increases the greenhouse effect) was about 280 parts per million (ppm). Today, the concentration is almost about 400 ppm. The reason for this difference is the emission of CO2 from industrial activity of fossil fuels and deforestation occurred since. If the total human influence on the atmosphere reached the equivalent of 550 ppm of CO2 would cause a rise in global average temperature of three degrees Celsius. If emissions will be mitigated, he might avoid exceeding the 450 ppm and the increase would be only two degrees.

The scientists of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change say more than two degrees would represent a substantial risk to be produce a climate tipping point that could have intolerable impacts on human well: among other serious consequences, the disappearance of Arctic summer sea ice and melting ice sheets of Greenland and West Antarctica, heat waves, hurricanes be produced off-season, drought and floods.

That is why the leaders of the countries of high industrialization (United States, Germany, Britain, France, Italy, Canada and Japan), known as G -7, meeting in Germany, so unanimously supported the goal set by the United Nations to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases between 40 and 70 percent from 2010 to 2050, and a complete decarbonisation of the global economy before 2100 . What is more, he placed the emphasis on the countries outside the G7, especially China, which is among the largest contributors to global warming and refuse to recognize any power to stop industrial development

The G-7 is an important step that increases the chances of success of the forthcoming summit in Paris. The initiative encourages even the Green Climate Fund, a mechanism must be worth 100,000 million dollars a year from 2020 to support the most vulnerable to climate change nations.

There are many reasons to believe that the Conference of the Parties or COP mark in December, a before and after in the fight against climate change, thanks to the achievement of a final and binding commitment to reduce pollutant emissions into the atmosphere from 2020. Up that date will the postponement was the Kyoto Protocol, which marked a cut in CO2 emissions by 15 percent by the signatory countries about what issued in 1990. Unlike Kyoto, from the COP in Copenhagen in 2009 where control of reducing emissions greenhouse gas linked only to some developed economies, the intention of the Paris agreement is also including the developing nations.

agreement on Wanted our future. It not just intended to achieve a result in a meeting of arrogant bureaucrats. Global citizenship requires an urgent document to improve their quality of life and celebrate the planet. A final document that can be read standing and loudly. It must not exceed two degrees. That it is. .