We agree with the Climate Action Network Canada that cutting carbon emissions by one-third within a decade – or 35 per cent below 1990 levels by 2025 – would fit the bill, and that reductions should begin immediately with targets enshrined in law.
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The ACP said it welcomes to date the US$10 billion mobilised for the Green Climate Fund, which was established as an operating entity of the Financial Mechanism of the Convention, to provide support to ACP countries to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions.
Accordting to a new study, pledges made in the lead-up to next week’s major Paris climate change conference can avert severe climate change, but only if the words are turned into long-term action.
Climate experts also say the USA – the world’s biggest polluter – has lowered the aims of the climate conference, failed to ratify the Kyoto protocol based on “polluter pays” principle, and has not done enough to rectify matters. “India is never a blocking country”.
“We have been engaging with India throughout the year in determining how they can contribute constructively to a successful outcome in Paris”, Rhodes told reporters. “We need strong provisions on adaptation”, he said. The hope is that they can strike a new deal on greenhouse gas emissions, to take effect from 2020 when current global commitments run out.
World leaders must “look beyond national horizons” to secure a “meaningful climate agreement” at U.N. talks in Paris next week, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Thursday.
Paul Bodnar, senior director for energy and climate change at the White House National Security Council, said Obama’s meetings with Xi and Modi are not meant to make announcements but to consult on key negotiations issues.
“Right now, we know that with the collective total of commitments, even if all the countries meet the commitments they’ve currently promised, we don’t avoid 2 degrees”. This must be anchored in science and lead the world towards a low-carbon, climate-resilient economy. But what happens in the financial sector is crucial to making any global climate change agreement come to life.
He jokes about coming to a full circle when he attends the upcoming COP21 Paris Climate Conference – as Bali and Paris are pronounced the same way in Mandarin Chinese.
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Officials from almost 200 countries will meet in the French capital from November 30 to December 11 to negotiate a plan to curb global warming by reducing carbon emissions, aiming to keep the temperature rise below 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit).
