The new future of climate change in the face of the Paris agreement
Saturday December 12, 2015 will be remembered as the day the first universal and binding agreement against him was signed. climate change. Consequences, many and throughout 2016 and its respective years to come, many nations will have to start working seriously on the fight against the effects of climate change and for the benefit of the environment.
As a preamble, we first want to determine the main cause and who pollutes the most in order to understand from a global perspective what we act on and which countries should or should be the most involved in the agreement.
Causes of climate change
We could actually spend hours recounting the causes and consequences of climate change or what is due, but something we do agree on is the need for a "radical change" in the way of understanding and acting on the environment from all social layers and all sectors that comprise a coherent and modern society acting on it. global warming and the greenhouse effect. The following summary scheme shows us the main origin that is being fought for.
Par excellence, the graph of discord and by which possibly many minds have woken up and which once again shows that the global temperature is changing and more so if we look at the Arctic is … (Also remembering the article Six graphs that confirm climate change)
The reference article that explains the graph HERE. Result… . "Colder places are warming faster than warmer places (The Arctic is the fastest-warming region, it is warming at more than twice the rate of the rest of the world)." With which we will have serious problems with the sea level. (See article How climate change affects cities where the problem of rising sea is investigated with reference to coastal cities)
Most polluting countries. The greenhouse effect
Who pollutes the most or which countries are most responsible for the pollution of the environment, It is one of the questions that many of us want to clarify and that is usually diluted between unreal data or with little clarity, especially if we talk about answers and questions to climate change. So we wanted to show and provide two interactive tools for better compression and determine which countries affect climate change the most and how the Emissions of greenhouse gases through time.
Who are the world's biggest greenhouse gas emitters?
How greenhouse gas emissions have changed over time
The reference article where we can find more data and tools is HERE. And we can access the infographic from HERE
COP Conference of the Parties
Trying to enhance a trend reversal climate, one of the main actions that have been established worldwide is the so-called COP (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change), also commonly known asUNFCCC (UNFCCC) it was adopted during the Rio Earth Summit (Janeiro 1992 - lien vers la frize). It entered into force on March 21, 1994 and has been ratified by 196 States, which constitute the “Parties”, the interested parties, of the Convention.
The object of the COP is a universal convention of principles that recognizes the existence of climate change due to human activity and that attributes to industrialized countries the main responsibility to fight against this phenomenon.
The Conference of the Parties (COP), composed of all the States (196) constitutes the supreme organ of the Convention. They meet at global conferences where decisions are made to respect the objectives to combat climate change. Decisions can only be made unanimously by the Parties or by consensus. The COP held in Paris is the 21st, hence the name COP21.
COP21 for climate change in Paris
After several negotiation texts, it has been definitively approved "A historic universal agreement" with the aim of keeping the temperature increase in this century below 2 degrees Celsius, and promoting efforts to limit the increase in temperature even more, below 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels and also it is "legally" binding. (Definitive document HERE in Spanish)
In COP21 practically everything has happened, discussions, applause, denials, hugs, kisses, protests and even more than one night of lust… Sure! But we intend to show a different point of view, two initiatives that have permeated due to their social action and mobilization of conscience for the benefit of a better future and responsibility before the Paris conference.
1.- Dear Bill Gates…. Will you lead the fight against climate change?
With the support of The Guardian newspaper, anonymous voices appealed to "all powerful" Bill Gates to help stop climate change. A video of the "Keep it in the ground" campaign that reflects a summary of a collection of more than 190 thousand voices from more than 170 countries.
2.- Run For Your Life
A movement inspired by a Sami poem…. "Take a stone in your hand and clench your fist around it until it begins to beat, live, speak, and move.". The Sami remind us … "WE STILL SPEAK THE LANGUAGE OF THE EARTH". The video is intended to be the beginning of Jenni Laiti's story. A walking tour from the Arctic region and ending in Paris on the climate conference. Remembering that in the European Arctic, temperatures have already risen 1.5 ° C.
Events and outcome of COP21
We wanted to transfer the key points, main objectives, decisive reports and conclusions to a clearer and more summarized format for a better understanding … So click on the image!
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COP21 agreement analysis Infographic
In the previous album a abstract infographic, carried out by this portal, to understand the 10 key points of the final document Framework Convention on Climate Change - COP21… Here we leave it!
Links of interest:
- Principles of sustainability
- Air and atmospheric pollution in real time
- Creative recycling concept
- Bioclimatic architecture concept.
- Building efficiency improvement.
- Container houses
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