Perils of Global Warming
By
Dr. Arvind Kumar
.jpg)
Global warming has assumed serious dimensions and the world leaders are
faced with this dilemma. The ongoing buildup of human-related greenhouse gases
— produced mainly by the burning of fossil fuels and forests – has attracted
the attention of the scientific community which has issued serious warnings
from time to time of the impending perils.
According to the Global Carbon Project, an international collaboration
of scientists, global emissions of carbon dioxide rose to 5.9 percent in 2010
and this increase solidified a trend of ever-rising emissions that scientists
fear will make it difficult, if not impossible, to forestall severe climate change in coming decades. The process
of global economic slowdown has further complicated the worldwide effort to
reduce emissions in conjunction with the technological, economic and political
issues that have to be resolved.
The United Nations has been engaged in sponsoring global talks every year
for almost two decades now, under the framework of United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change, an international treaty signed by 194 countries
to cooperatively deliberate on global climate change and its impact. The
conferences on climate change, the latest being the Durban conference held in
December 2011 in South Africa, have genrally veered round familiar conflicts
and controversies: the differing obligations of industrialized and developing
nations, the question of who will pay to help poor nations adapt, the urgency
of protecting tropical forests and the need to rapidly develop and deploy clean
energy technology. These meetings have often ended in disillusionment, with incremental
political progress but little real impact on the climate. Unless the leading defaulters
are tamed, no tangible solution to end the perils of climate change can be
expected. Let’s hope that the ensuing Rio+20 conferences bear some fruitful
results.
#PerilsGlobalWarming #Results #RIO20 #ClimateChange #Durban #UNFC
Comments
Post a Comment