... walked its own climate change road: from disbelief and scepticism to heated arguments and finally consensus. By now 97% of climate scientists agree that global warming is a real trend and human beings account for a large part of it. The main way we cause climate change is by emitting greenhouse gases (mostly CO2) which stay in the atmosphere and cause the so-called greenhouse effect. Earth's surface is warmed up by sunlight which allows vegetation to grow and travellers to show off their holiday tan. But the incoming sunlight provides only about half of the ...
... climate change: nothing to do with me approach
Russia is the fifth largest emitter of CO2 after China, United States, European Union and India. It is one of the biggest producers of fossil fuel and has vast areas of carbon sinks (forests which absorb CO2). Though Russia obviously holds a huge stake in climate change it played only a minor role in the negotiations. Russia's ratification of Kyoto Protocol was crucial to its success back in 2004, but last year President Putin allegedly only promised not to block any deal backed by major countries ...
Stage lights have been switched off, the treaty has been signed and the last delegation has just left Charles De Gaulle airport in Paris. The agreement has been called historical. And now it’s time to wonder: what’s next? Whether governments will be willing to commit on this treaty or not, it will be clear in a few years. And now what? According to the Financial Times, for instance, the British government doesn’t seem too concerned about the climate deal. Since this agreement has...
... Parties (COP) is set to begin today, Monday November 30th in Paris. Organized by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) it aims at bringing together world leaders in order to find an agreement over gas emissions and global ... ... US has passed from 17% to 28% for the same period, while China has declared to put a cap on them by 2030. And observing the CO2 emission of these last two countries, we can actually see how pivotal their commitments are. According to the data collected ...
