Ques. What are the commitments made by countries towards limiting the effects of global warming?
Dear student,
Climate change is now affecting each and every country on every continent. Due to climate change, weather patterns are changing, sea levels are rising, weather events are becoming more extreme and greenhouse gas emissions are now at their highest levels in history. So, in order to tackle this, countries have taken some of the following steps :
1. To strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change, the countries have adopted the Paris Agreement at the COP21 in Paris. All countries agreed to work to limit global temperature rise to well below 2 degrees centigrade of the pre-industrial levels.
2. At Katowice COP24, countries agreed on a set of guidelines for implementing the landmark 2015 Paris Climate Change Agreement as a measure of urgency.
3. European Union adopted a series of measures that included a binding target for 32 percent of electricity production to come from renewables by 2030.
4. India has set up Nationally determined contribution(NDC) goals which pledges to cut the emissions intensity of GDP by 33–35% by 2030 from 2005 levels, obtain 40% of energy requirement from renewable energy sources.
Regards,
Climate change is now affecting each and every country on every continent. Due to climate change, weather patterns are changing, sea levels are rising, weather events are becoming more extreme and greenhouse gas emissions are now at their highest levels in history. So, in order to tackle this, countries have taken some of the following steps :
1. To strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change, the countries have adopted the Paris Agreement at the COP21 in Paris. All countries agreed to work to limit global temperature rise to well below 2 degrees centigrade of the pre-industrial levels.
2. At Katowice COP24, countries agreed on a set of guidelines for implementing the landmark 2015 Paris Climate Change Agreement as a measure of urgency.
3. European Union adopted a series of measures that included a binding target for 32 percent of electricity production to come from renewables by 2030.
4. India has set up Nationally determined contribution(NDC) goals which pledges to cut the emissions intensity of GDP by 33–35% by 2030 from 2005 levels, obtain 40% of energy requirement from renewable energy sources.
Regards,