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Curb or mitigate climate change? It is a question that is still being asked today in different conferences and environmental agreements. However, the reality of the climate crisis that has been confirmed this year, would affirm the impossibility of curbing an increasingly visible and devastating climate change.
For this reason, any measure taken against this phenomenon will be focused on mitigating the effects of climate change, that is, trying to make the damage it produces as less harmful as possible and, above all, adapting the way it works. life of today's societies in any corner of the planet towards sustainable development and the lowest possible emission of CO2 and greenhouse gases.
In this context of mitigating climate change, the Paris Agreement proposed different objectives, ambitious according to some, insufficient in the opinion of others. Let's look at these goals and more related information in more detail in this Green Ecologist article on the Paris Agreement: what it consists of, countries and objectives.
What is the Paris Agreement?
The Paris Agreement was presented during the XXI Conference on Climate Change (commonly known as COP 21), held in the French capital on December 15, 2015. In this agreement, numerous countries around the world presented their desire and commitment to make the different objectives that were proposed within the Framework Convention of the United Nations on Climate Change. They recognized the need and emergence of a progressive and effective response to the climate change threat and the repercussions that it entails (and will entail) in both developed, developing and less developed countries.
In addition, they had very much in mind the priority of protecting food security worldwide, placing special emphasis on those food production systems that suffer the adverse effects of climate change, such as agriculture, beekeeping, livestock and fishing.
In the next sections we will expose both the different signatory countries of the Paris Agreement, like the important objectives that they marked as action goals.
Countries that signed the Paris Agreement
A total of 174 countries and the European Union signed, through their political representatives and / or permanent representatives at the UN, the Paris Agreement.
The official list of countries participating in the Paris Agreement includes numerous African countries such as Somalia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Niger, Namibia, etc; as well as countries in North America (USA), South America (Peru, Paraguay, Argentina) and Central America (El Salvador, Cuba, etc.), numerous Asian countries (Singapore, Cambodia, India, Mongolia, United Arab Emirates, etc. .) and Australia and New Zealand, representing the continent of Oceania, also signed the Paris Agreement.
By signing, each and every one of the countries that participated in the Paris Agreement presented their consent and commitment to the measures and objectives that were presented in said agreement. In the next section of this article we will delve into the main objectives of the Paris Agreement, thus detailing its environmental characteristics and approaches.
Objectives of the Paris Agreement
The different countries participating in the Paris Agreement confirmed their support and response to the threat posed by climate change worldwide. Thus, in a context oriented towards sustainable development and poverty eradication, the main objectives of the Paris Agreement are:
- Maintain the increase in global average temperature below 2 ºC, trying to limit said increase to 1.5 ºC (with respect to the temperature levels existing in the pre-industrial period). In this way, the possible effects of climate change will be reduced, such as the rise in the temperature of marine and oceanic waters, the melting of the poles and consequent rise in sea level, as well as sudden changes in the environmental phenomena associated with the seasonal changes.
- Promote resilience to climate change, that is, increase the capacity to adapt and react to the possible effects (present and future) that climate change will entail.
- Reduce greenhouse gas emissions and ensure healthy and optimal food production.
- Orient financial flows towards sustainable economies (circular, blue and green economies), always focused on sustainable development.
These ambitious objectives presented by the Paris Agreement, would be applied reflecting the equity and common responsibilities of the parties participating in said agreement, thus differentiating the various capacities and development circumstances of each nation, since they do not have the same level of contamination. and greenhouse gas emissions worldwide, nations as developed as the Chinese or American mega-industry, compared to small, more impoverished countries, such as Haiti or Ghana.
To expand the information on the great environmental problems of accelerated climate change, we advise you to read this other article by Green Ecologist on Causes and consequences of climate change.
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