The
international climate deal certainly looks like the only possible
solution to effectively tackle the climate change threat but this fact
is practically useless since it is very clearly that developed and
developing world still cannot find a mutual language needed for
agreement.
Hopes are quickly fading for new international climate
deal. Developing nations are pressing hard, insisting that rich
countries must agree massive cuts in greenhouse gas emissions while
developed countries do not want to legally oblige themselves to massive
emission cuts if fast developing economies such as China and India do
not follow the same path.
China and India want the extension of
Kyoto deal but many other countries are against it because China and
India had no obligations to curb emissions under Kyoto while United
States never ratified Kyoto. This would practically leave the EU alone,
and EU doesn't want to go all alone, especially since it accounts for
only 11 percent of world's total greenhouse gas emissions.
Big
players such as China and United States are still not ready to commit
which means that the rest of the world isn't putting enough pressure on
them.
The failure to reach the climate deal could have
catastrophic consequences-the scientists have said it many times that
any increase of global temperature beyond the two degrees of Celsius
will irreversibly change the climate in many parts of the world, and
judging by the latest estimates the world is currently on path to a rise
of 3.2 degrees Celsius as the emissions keep on rising.
If the
world leaders continue this selfishness in climate change talks polar
bears won't be the only creatures feeling the heat of climate change
because our children and grandchildren will feel the same, cursing the
legacy that was left to them by our generation
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