PROFFESSIONALS ranging from economists, accountants, engineers, surveyors, programmers and academicians convened at Bingu worldwide Conference Centre (BICC) in Lilongwe for an environmental seminar to discuss possibilities and advantages of adopting climate change policies in Malawi a head of United Nation Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of Parties (COP) 21 in Paris, France.
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The food companies say they will “re-energize” their efforts to ensure that their supply chains become more sustainable and will advocate for government to set “clear, achievable, measurable and enforceable science-based targets for carbon emission reductions”.
“The cruel irony of climate change is that people in the developing world, many of whom grow the ingredients we use in our products, are the least able to adapt to climate change and will pay the steepest price for a problem they had no part in creating”, said Ben and Jerry’s CEO Jostein Solheim.
General Mills has joined nine other food companies in addressing climate before a large United Nations gathering on the issue later this year.
It is hoped that a bold, internationally binding agreement developed at the UN’s COP21 meeting in Paris in 60 days’ time could mitigate the effects of climate change by keeping global warming below the 2°C threshold.
This is the second letter that has been sent by industry to policymakers on climate change in the space of 24 hours.
A recent study found that with the current pledges we are headed for 3.5°C (6.3°F) pathway under an unduly pessimistic assumption that no further emissions cuts are achieved after 2030.*** If the world takes the first step in Paris, it is far more reasonable to foresee countries taking additional steps, building their climate commitments over time. Whitehouse. “Today marks an important shift, as both Democrats and Republicans come together to listen to major food and beverage companies discuss how they are adapting to this global threat”.
Advanced industrial nations of the world are determined to “mobilizing jointly $100 billion a year by 2020, to address the needs of developing countries”. As the Prime Minister’s special envoy on climate change, he fought hard to cut a fair deal at the 2009 Copenhagen climate conference.
It seems if we use all of the technology available by 2050, we can lower the greenhouse gases by. Our historical cumulative emission as of today is below 3%. This should lay to rest, once and for all, the lame excuse that we shouldn’t act because the rest of the world isn’t acting.
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About Ceres: Ceres is a nonprofit organization mobilizing business leadership on climate change, water scarcity and other global sustainability challenges.
