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The Paris Conference on Climate Change is around the corner. The 4 big emitters i.e. USA, China, EU and India have all made commitments to reduce their emissions in the coming two decades or so. But, is their enough time for that?
Climate change has become a major problem in today's world. With Syria's civil war tracing its origins to continuous drought conditions, the island nations of Tuvalu and Seychelles fearing submergence; and, water wars becoming a reality in the near future, the commitments for the decade may not be enough. We need better targets and better achievements. For this, the world will need some cash! And, going by India's long standing principle of CBDR (Common But Differentiated Responsibilities), the money needs to come from the pockets of the developed world. Yet, the erstwhile failed commitments, by the developed world, of providing $100 million in the Green Climate Fund calls us to question our efforts.
The world is a fast changing place; and, man's unwarranted playing with the nature has called in the onslaught of the dreadful climate change at a much faster rate.
We must take action. Fast Action. Or else, we shall all perish with the ruins of our lost nature.
Contents of Blog Post by Neha Kapil
http://ypspatiala.tiged.org/yps/blogs/view/19325
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I am sorry I got late in responding to your comments. But all of you have made very valid points, in addition to what I wrote. I agree with all that you wrote and believe that all countries, irrespective of their economic standing, must come together on the issue of climate change.
I love the "long standing principle of CBDR", and I believe it is such strong statement because i means that every nation will play to its strengths to solve the environmental issues that plague our society today. I am wondering though, what are are the responsibilities that you attribute to less developed nation?
Pamela, yes I too believe the CBDR is a statement of intent and purpose. It shows that each nation is willing to lend its full support to the cause of climate change. But developing nations too have a huge role to play in this. The developed nations have only been tasked with helping the less developed nations, mainly in monetary terms. But it is up to these developing nations to formulate and implement policies that lead to the development of a much more sustainable world. The environment is a common heritage to all nations, and all countries must work towards protecting it.
I completely agree with your points. We need to make change, and fast. Climate change will be detrimental to our society if we don't do something soon. Developed countries need to give more money to help with climate change but we all need to work together as well, globally, otherwise all our efforts are in vain.
Good evening!
I found this article talking about the resolutions of the Indian government to reduce the country's fingerprint and adapt under climate change.
Do you think that the government has made some changes and reached its goal fixed in 2008 ?
Here is the link of the article:
http://www.c2es.org/docUploads/India%20National%20...
I agree with you that government has a huge role to play and that money is essential to start solving the problem. I believe that most of the goals written in this article won't happen without money. But we have to also keep in mind that making the population aware does not require money ( or very little, maybe through information sessions, posters in the streets..) and can result in huge difference if everyone makes baby steps. You can also read the word document that I posted in the resources, under water adaption. A lot of people still do not feel so concerned about climate change. Is it because of a lack of communication?
Hi Geraldine!
The article on India's policy is really informative. But I believe these are ambitious projects. Though the country and the government has been able to bring about changes on certain fronts, it hasn't been able to reach all the goals. And not just India, this is the state of the whole global community. The community has collectively been unable to address the issue of climate change. And that is why this year, we must get together with greater resolve and intent and ensure that we succeed in our missions this time.
Also, I agree that people do not know a lot about these issues. And lack of communication has played a part in it. But so too has lack of realization. Even though quite a lot of people know about these issues, they fail to realize their gravity and importance, which leads them to continue with their unsustainable lifestyle, which has proved to be detrimental to our cause.
that is true if these main emitters spend the money needed to reduce carbon emission, global warming wont stop but will definitely slow down . The main countries have to realize that the money needed has to come from them. Also reducing carbon emissions will make our planet cleaner and healthier. Although we don't realize it the massive amount of waste developed countries produce mostly ends up in undeveloped countries making it even more unsafe and even harder to develop.
I totally agree with you because we can't play the blame game and say that this country is more responsibility then the next and that every country need to take charge together and they can actually work towards a better more sustainable world where climate change is not a worry but a past mistake.
I agree with what you are saying about how humanity has messed up and how we aren't putting enough effort into fixing this. I find it scary that our leaders are perhaps ignoring climate change or prioritizing less dire aspects of their jobs than something that we will all have to face in the near future. Climate change will cause water shortages, as you said in this post, which will consequentially cause wars and land loss which will be detrimental to humanity. This is a right now problem, not a twenty-years-in-the-future kind of problem, and as such we need to fix it right now.
Jillian, you are very right in saying that this is the problem of the present and not of the future. And this is exactly what the international community has failed to realize over the past couple of decades. WE have always presumed climate change to be a problem that is not really a problem for us, but for our future generations, and that has made us care less about it. But we fail to realize that it is as big a problem for us as it might be for people who live 200 years from now.
Jatinder Kumar Saini
Oct 27, 2015