China, the United States and the EU-which together account for more than half of global Carbon dioxide pollution-have already submitted theirs.
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As many as 600 million more people in communities around the globe risk facing a decrease in food security and an increase in hunger as climate change worsens, according to the United Nations.
The recommendations come in advance of the 2015 Conference of Parties, scheduled to take place in Paris from November 30, until December 11. The majorities in 40 nations surveyed said they would support a limit of emissions by their country.
They go on to say that a median of 78 percent support the idea of their country “limiting greenhouse gas emissions as part of an global agreement in Paris”.
The poll was conducted in person and by telephone with 45,435 people earlier this year.
“All that’s unusual is not because of climate change”, says Martin Hoerling, a scientist in NOAA’s Earth System Research Lab and an editor of the report.
As world leaders prepare to negotiate an agreement that will frame a global climate change agenda for the next decade and beyond, a new Pew Research Center survey finds there is an worldwide consensus that climate change poses a serious challenge.
“Between 2030 and 2050, climate change is expected to cause approximately 250,000 additional deaths per year, from malnutrition, malaria, diarrhoea and heat stress” and is estimated to have direct health costs of between US$ 2-4 billion/year by 2030. When it comes to recruitment, 43% of businesses looking for new staff with knowledge of climate change believe that graduate applicants are prepared on the issue, although almost two-thirds (59%) of businesses say they do not require new recruits to have any knowledge or understanding of the subject.
Its complementary strategy, known as mitigation, refers to efforts undertaken to stop or at least reduce greenhouse gas emissions, with a view to diminish the extent of climate change.
Emphasising the importance of viewing cumulative emissions by countries rather than the current annual emissions, Narain said, “It is due to the emission by developed countries such as the United States that the world has reached this state where it has to restrict emissions and global warming”.
Among the events that were not found to have been influenced by humans was the extreme 2013-14 winter storm season over much of North America, which was “driven mainly by natural variability and not human-caused climate change”, said the report. Launched at the COP20 climate talks in 2014, the Low Carbon Technology Partnerships initiative (LCTPi) is a way for businesses to work together on climate change.
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There is a shared and growing understanding around the world that there is no high-carbon path to prosperity, for individual nations or for the global community. It also found that the collective impact of the INDCs will lead to a decrease in per-capita emissions over the coming 15 years.
