By helping individuals, organizations and governments assess their footprint, make smart decisions about how to reduce and offset their emissions, and connect people and organizations across the globe, the technology can help improve and accelerate the impact that the Climate Neutral Now Initiative is driving. These plans, known in United Nations jargon asIntended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs), must be produced by all countries so that scientists can assess whether their sum total is enough to keep the world from overheating by 2°C – the limit agreed by politicians to prevent unsafe climate change.
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India promises to hike renewable energy targets to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, in long-awaited pledges to be announced next week for upcoming United Nations climate change talks, a newspaper report said Thursday.
He expressed disappointment that the recent preparatory talks in Bonn had not made more progress ahead of the summit in Paris in December which is designed to produce an global agreement to reduce world emissions beyond 2020. We see tremendous opportunity for Microsoft and our growing ecosystem of partners to work with governments and organizations globally to leverage the power of cloud, Big Data, mobile and social technologies to accelerate the wave of innovation which will transform society’s understanding of and interaction with our natural environment.
“Our national plan will give you a new prescription from India on this issue. It’s our right as people of India, and we want that carbon space”.
Ed Norton explained: “We all need to take personal responsibility to combat the threat of climate change”. This will feature as a REDD+ activity because it will help restock the depleting carbon stores in degraded forests. In 2009, India said it could cut emissions intensity by 20-25 percent below 2005 levels by 2020. In December 2014 it launched its ambitious solar power programme which aims to provide 100 GW by 2022. While China and the USA have pledged to bring theirs to a common 12 tons per capita by 2030, India “will never reach there”, Javadekar said.
“I still remember flying in that last day, and nothing was happening, and I literally had to rescue the entire enterprise by crashing a meeting of the BRIC countries [Brazil, Russia, India and China] and strong-arming them into coming up with at least a document that could build some consensus going into the future”, Obama said.
But environmental activists claim that India can always do much more.
The initiative includes a new online platform that allows users to choose from a range of UN-verified offsetting schemes The United Nations says all of the projects contribute to sustainable development in the developing world as well as reducing global emissions.
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“Addressing climate change is a moral imperative”, said Mayor Kasim Reed.
