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GLOBAL WARMING• Global warming is the increase in
the average temperature of Earth's near-surface air and oceans since the mid-20th century and its projected continuation.
• According to the 2007 Fourth Assessment Report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), global surface temperature increased 0.74 ± 0.18 °C (1.33 ± 0.32 °F) during the 20th century
CLIMATE CHANGE
Climate change is a long-term change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns over periods of time that range from decades to millions of years
It may be qualified as anthropogenic climate change, more generally known as global warming or anthropogenic global warming (AGW)
Climate change may be limited to a specific region, or may occur across the whole Earth.
Terms to know...
Adaptation
Anthropogenic emission
Clean Development
Mechanism(CDM)
Carbon Sink
Energy intensity
GHGs
Mitigation
Technology Transfer
A C T I O N S I N PA S T . . .
Bali Action Plan
The Conference of
Parties (CoP)
Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change
Kyoto Protocol
UNFCC
COPENHAGEN CLIMATE SUMMIT
Representatives of 193 countries meet in international conference in Copenhagen.
To try and hammer out an agreement that will save the planet from the fallouts of global warming and climate change
COPENHAGEN SUMMIT
Copenhagen Accord has kept the Kyoto
Protocol sacrosanct as future negotiations
will be based on the basic principals of
Kyoto Protocol
The developed countries have been
making attempts to nullify the provisions
of Kyoto Protocol
The last minute accord has taken care of
all the above concerns simply after it
become clear that 193 nations conference
was in danger of big failure
The accord sets the goal of keeping rise in
Global Temperature within 2 degree
Celsius to be able to deal with challenges
of Global warming
It fulfils the parameters
There is no mention of specific peaking
year
To worrie or not... It is expected to come up with an agreement that will make it legally binding for rich and developed countries to reduce their GHGs emissions by specific amounts by certain date, possibly 2020 In fact, such an international agreement already exists. It is called the Kyoto Protocol that makes it mandatory for a group of rich countries to reduce their collective emissions by 5.2 percent from their 1990 levels by 2012
Rea l i ty. . . More than 80 per cent of the accumulated GHGs in atmosphere have been emitted by developed countries since they were the first ones to industrialise.
A handful of 30 rich countries account for nearly half the global emissions Their average per capita emission is more than twice the world average and at least ten times more than that of India
Think again...now!!!
A lot of it results from wasteful and luxurious consumption of energy according to Bali Action Plan, every country needs to take steps to reduce its energy consumption. But unlike rich countries, they do not have to affix targets and the reduction targets are not legally binding.
this has been done so that developing countries don’t find themselves constrained in their effort to increase economic activity and reduce poverty.
Fixing the Peak year
• Fixing peak year would impact the economic progress of the developing countries as they would not be able to emit a higher level of carbon after that year
• The accord explicitly recognizes that the time frame for peaking year will be longer in developing countries
• There is no mention of specific peaking year
Does every one agreed??? In principle, yes, but there are
sharp differences over the details
Rich countries, for example ,want big , emerging economies like India and china to take some sort of targeted reductions in their rapidly growing emissions.
Developing countries are demanding more ambitious emission cuts from the rich countries.
India and climate change
Fifth largest emitter of GHGs
behind China, the United States,
the European union and Russia
Annual GHGs emission is in range
of 1.6 to 1.8 billion tones.
India’s per capita emission is about
1.2 tones per year, its about one-
fourth of the global average, one-
tenth of the emission of developed
countries and about one-third of
the emissions of China’s.
Between 1990 and 2004,India’s
emission of carbon dioxide grew
by 7% a year on avg.
India's Argument
Development and poverty
reduction is its primary and over-
riding priority.
Reducing GHGs is the sole
responsibility of developed nations
as the Kyoto Protocol says.
India will take mitigation efforts
only if developed world supports it
with technology transfer and
finance. India has already come up with a
National Action Plan on Climate
Change in line with its
responsibility under the Bali road
map
In the end. . .
• The final agreement failed to meet UN ambitions, with participating nations agreeing only to “take note” of the deal eventually brokered by China, US, Brazil, India and South Africa.
• President Obama, whose representatives called the deal a “meaningful agreement”, has also recognised that the progress made was “not enough.”
have to think again...
• Representatives from
environmental organisations
and the developing world
have denounced the deal as
insufficient and unacceptable.
• The accord is a statement of
intent, recording a promise
by the 193 member states to
combat climate change
within their own countries,
but lacking any real
enforceability.
To Save Planet...
• Global Warming is a dramatically urgent and serious problem. We don’t need to wait for governments to find a solution for this problem
• Each individual can bring an important help adopting a responsible life style
Act now...
• Starting from little everyday things
• for example: - save water save life -start using public
transport -using recycler things and stop trashing and
burning non biodegradable wastes
Now or never...
-stop wasting energy and start using energy economically
-start using green artictecture and organic things
-saving our life saver forests
Take initiative...be smart...
• Being responsible is the only way to save our homes
• So please give attention to those small things which can harm us
• And give what we got to save our world before its too late
lets take a pledge
today for a better greener ‘safer tomorrow to be together
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