Climate Change And The Global Warming - 1328 Words

Paris Climate Talks Climate change is one of the most important issues on the global political agenda. This is a priority topic not only for the United Nations and its Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, but also for political, economic and religious leaders, including Pope Francis that also urges to take measures to curb global warming. Despite the recent terrorist attacks in Paris, the leaders of more than 120 countries came to the French capital in November for a final decision on a new UN climate change agreement, the negotiation process that lasted several years. Multilateral efforts to fight global warming have not always been successful. For example the failure of UN meeting in Copenhagen in 2009 that was blamed on developed countries.†¦show more content†¦The warming also leads to economic losses. It has a negative impact on water resources, food production, health and the environment that without taking proper measures leads to a loss equivalent to at least 5% of global GDP. Two-thirds of the world s CO2 emissions are produced by ten countries, led by China, the US, India and Russia. However, the amount of emissions per capita is different: for example, according to the World Bank for 2011-2015. It amounted 6.7 metric tones per capita in China, compared to 17 metric tones per capita in the US popula tion and 4.9 tones per capita in the entire world (The World Bank). Regardless, the basic elements of Paris Climate Talks package are already known. This is reflected in the text of the draft articles on the results of the negotiations, which currently consists of 51 pages. The text includes the following key elements: mitigation, adaptation, finance, technology, capacity building, transparency of actions and evaluation. Article on mitigation is devoted to what is a long-term global goal for emission reductions. For example, among the options for the long-term goal is decarburization that will be a very difficult choice to make for a country whose economy is based on fossil fuels (e.g. Russia). Adaptation of all countries is going to be needed to respond to the already occurring impacts of climate change. They are unevenly distributed around the world, where the most vulnerable countries