Governments of different developed countries have been taking their best move against this climate change in the world they are launching different awareness campaigns on the national and international levels as well against climate change. This is a serious issue and the world leaders gathered to solve this issue made agreements most notable of them is the PARIS AGREEMENT under the supervision of the United Nation.
International Agreements on Climate Change are listed below:
- Paris Agreement (2016):
The Paris Agreement is an agreement within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, dealing with greenhouse gas emissions mitigation and adaptation, and finance, signed in 2016. The agreement's language was negotiated by representatives of 196 state parties at the 21st conference of UNFCCC in Paris and adopted by consensus on 12 December 2015. As of November 2019, 195 UNFCCC members have signed the agreement, and 187 have become a party to it.The Paris Agreement is a long-term temperature controlling agreement that is meant to keep the temperature of this planet to keep in a moderate stage. Its goal is to keep the increase in global average temperature to well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels; and to pursue efforts to limit the increase to 1.5 °C, recognizing that this would substantially reduce the risks and impacts of climate change. This should be done by peaking emissions as soon as possible, in order to "achieve a balance between anthropogenic emissions by sources and removals by sinks of greenhouse gases" in the second half of the 21st century. It also aims to increase the ability of parties to adapt to the adverse impacts of climate change, and make "finance flows consistent with a pathway towards low greenhouse gas emissions and climate-resilient development."
- Kyoto Protocol (1997):
In the middle of the last decade of 20th-century UNFCCC members realized that more strong provision is needed to reduce emissions. In the year 1997, all the members agreed to the Kyoto Protocol, which introduced legally binding emission reduction targets for developed countries. It's second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol began on 1 January 2013 and will end in 2020. Approximately 38 countries show their interest in this agreement also including the member states of the European Union. This second period is covered by the Doha amendment, under which participating countries have committed to reducing emissions by at least 18% below the levels decided in1990s. The EU has committed to reducing emissions in this period to 20% below 1990 levels. The main weakness of the Kyoto Protocol is that it only requires developed countries to take action. As the United States has never signed up to the Kyoto Protocol, Canada pulled out before the end of the first commitment period and Russia, Japan, and New Zealand are not taking part in the second commitment period, it also only now applies to around 14% of the world's emissions. However, more than 70 developing and developed countries have made various non-binding commitments to reduce or limit their greenhouse gas emissions.
These are of the 2 major agreements that the world has made regarding their fight against climate change and of course, there are many more agreements regarding climate change. But the main thing is not just to make the agreements and leave those signed papers in the cabinet or highly protected safes of developed countries. But to implement them practically this earth is our only home and if we keep it ignoring the challenges it faces today we will have to face the consequences of it in the near future or till the end of this world.
In the middle of the last decade of 20th-century UNFCCC members realized that more strong provision is needed to reduce emissions. In the year 1997, all the members agreed to the Kyoto Protocol, which introduced legally binding emission reduction targets for developed countries. It's second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol began on 1 January 2013 and will end in 2020. Approximately 38 countries show their interest in this agreement also including the member states of the European Union. This second period is covered by the Doha amendment, under which participating countries have committed to reducing emissions by at least 18% below the levels decided in1990s. The EU has committed to reducing emissions in this period to 20% below 1990 levels. The main weakness of the Kyoto Protocol is that it only requires developed countries to take action. As the United States has never signed up to the Kyoto Protocol, Canada pulled out before the end of the first commitment period and Russia, Japan, and New Zealand are not taking part in the second commitment period, it also only now applies to around 14% of the world's emissions. However, more than 70 developing and developed countries have made various non-binding commitments to reduce or limit their greenhouse gas emissions.
These are of the 2 major agreements that the world has made regarding their fight against climate change and of course, there are many more agreements regarding climate change. But the main thing is not just to make the agreements and leave those signed papers in the cabinet or highly protected safes of developed countries. But to implement them practically this earth is our only home and if we keep it ignoring the challenges it faces today we will have to face the consequences of it in the near future or till the end of this world.
These are of the 2 major agreements that the world has made regarding their fight against climate change and of course, there are many more agreements regarding climate change. But the main thing is not just to make the agreements and leave those signed papers in the cabinet or highly protected safes of developed countries. But to implement them practically this earth is our only home and if we keep it ignoring the challenges it faces today we will have to face the consequences of it in the near future or till the end of this world.
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