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Climate Change Diane Shayne

Natural Greenhouse

Anthropogenic Greenhouse Gases

Impact to

Health

Weather

Global Warming

Diseases driven by climate change

Impact to the Philippines

43 degrees in 30 years

more and stronger rains in Luzon and Visayas

Less rain, more drought at the Southern tip

Least Greenhouse Gases:

Small island state

Poorer countries

Irony of Climate Change: the those of that produce the least GHGs

will be the first and worst hit by the effects of CC

Climate Justice

Not easy to stop everyone from consuming items which add to

GHG emissions

Solution: Mitigation by individual and state

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Next Problem: How do you allocate mititgation?

o Should it be based on the countrys 1990 levels?

o As for the US, thats not possible. US offers 17%

reductions of that of their 2005 GHG emissions, bringing

them back to their 1990 level. Virtually, this is 50% of theircurrent emissions.

EU demand for big reduction; they have strong green groups;

they are willing to reduce 20-30% of their 1990 rates

Annex I parties of the COP in the 1990 Convention

Developing countries who contributed the most emissions

#1 emitter now: China; they overtook the US in 2008

China

Highest emitter, but they are still poor per capita; but they are

significantly reducing poverty rates in the macro level.

Per capita emission is still very small compared to that of the US

The fight between DEVELOPING and DEVELOPED Countries

How can parties agree to allocate mititgation

Cancun Agreement

All go

Failed: agreement on allocation of mitigation of emission

Agreements now will serve beyond 2050, because of our inaction

in the last 20 years , the earths fate is only determined until 2050. Our

only action in the meantime is to cope and adopt to climate change.

CC- a common but differentiated responsibilities (argument of thedeveloping countries)

Developing will participate and help CC, but developed countries

must act more and contribute more

10-15 years to reduce emission, another 5-10 years impact the

atmosphere

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