About Climate Change
Human activities and the burning of fossil fuels have significantly increased the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and altered the earth’s climate. The last decade has been warmest on record since reliable measurements began in the mid-1800 and the year 2010 was the warmest year ever measured.
The effects of climate change are already being observed across the world with increasing evidence of melting glaciers, rising sea levels and changing weather patterns. Climate change can affect human health, biodiversity, food production, cause famines, crop failures and extinction of species. The UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has identified climate change as “the defining challenge of our era”.
In order to avoid these devastating effects on the environment, the economy and people’s lives, there is international consensus that the average global temperature rise should be kept under 2˚C. To achieve this, total emissions until 2050 must be limited to 750 gtCO2 or 18.75 gtCO2 per year, whereas global emissions in 2010 were 30gtCO2. If current trends continue, the temperature will rise between 1.8 and 4 degrees Celsius according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
Many policies and regulations in force to mitigate climate change – including the Kyoto Protocol and the Clean Development Mechanism - have been effective, but the scale of these measures has not been enough to avoid an overall global increase in greenhouse gas emissions.
To avoid the critical 2˚C increase, we need to drastically cut emissions by tackling consumption of resources and energy, and reducing reliance on fossil fuels.
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