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GLOBAL WARMING• Global warming is the increase in

the average temperature of Earth's near-surface air and oceans since the mid-20th century and its projected continuation.

• According to the 2007 Fourth Assessment Report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), global surface temperature increased 0.74 ± 0.18 °C (1.33 ± 0.32 °F) during the 20th century

CLIMATE CHANGE

Climate change is a long-term change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns over periods of time that range from decades to millions of years

It may be qualified as anthropogenic climate change, more generally known as global warming or anthropogenic global warming (AGW)

Climate change may be limited to a specific region, or may occur across the whole Earth.

Terms to know...

Adaptation

Anthropogenic emission

Clean Development

Mechanism(CDM)

Carbon Sink

Energy intensity

GHGs

Mitigation

Technology Transfer

A C T I O N S I N PA S T . . .

Bali Action Plan

The Conference of

Parties (CoP)

Intergovernmental Panel

on Climate Change

Kyoto Protocol

UNFCC

COPENHAGEN CLIMATE SUMMIT

Representatives of 193 countries meet in international conference in Copenhagen.

To try and hammer out an agreement that will save the planet from the fallouts of global warming and climate change

COPENHAGEN SUMMIT

Copenhagen Accord has kept the Kyoto

Protocol sacrosanct as future negotiations

will be based on the basic principals of

Kyoto Protocol

The developed countries have been

making attempts to nullify the provisions

of Kyoto Protocol

The last minute accord has taken care of

all the above concerns simply after it

become clear that 193 nations conference

was in danger of big failure

The accord sets the goal of keeping rise in

Global Temperature within 2 degree

Celsius to be able to deal with challenges

of Global warming

It fulfils the parameters

There is no mention of specific peaking

year

To worrie or not... It is expected to come up with an agreement that will make it legally binding for rich and developed countries to reduce their GHGs emissions by specific amounts by certain date, possibly 2020 In fact, such an international agreement already exists. It is called the Kyoto Protocol that makes it mandatory for a group of rich countries to reduce their collective emissions by 5.2 percent from their 1990 levels by 2012

Rea l i ty. . . More than 80 per cent of the accumulated GHGs in atmosphere have been emitted by developed countries since they were the first ones to industrialise.

A handful of 30 rich countries account for nearly half the global emissions Their average per capita emission is more than twice the world average and at least ten times more than that of India

Think again...now!!!

A lot of it results from wasteful and luxurious consumption of energy according to Bali Action Plan, every country needs to take steps to reduce its energy consumption. But unlike rich countries, they do not have to affix targets and the reduction targets are not legally binding.

this has been done so that developing countries don’t find themselves constrained in their effort to increase economic activity and reduce poverty.

Fixing the Peak year

• Fixing peak year would impact the economic progress of the developing countries as they would not be able to emit a higher level of carbon after that year

• The accord explicitly recognizes that the time frame for peaking year will be longer in developing countries

• There is no mention of specific peaking year

Does every one agreed??? In principle, yes, but there are

sharp differences over the details

Rich countries, for example ,want big , emerging economies like India and china to take some sort of targeted reductions in their rapidly growing emissions.

Developing countries are demanding more ambitious emission cuts from the rich countries.

India and climate change

Fifth largest emitter of GHGs

behind China, the United States,

the European union and Russia

Annual GHGs emission is in range

of 1.6 to 1.8 billion tones.

India’s per capita emission is about

1.2 tones per year, its about one-

fourth of the global average, one-

tenth of the emission of developed

countries and about one-third of

the emissions of China’s.

Between 1990 and 2004,India’s

emission of carbon dioxide grew

by 7% a year on avg.

India's Argument

Development and poverty

reduction is its primary and over-

riding priority.

Reducing GHGs is the sole

responsibility of developed nations

as the Kyoto Protocol says.

India will take mitigation efforts

only if developed world supports it

with technology transfer and

finance. India has already come up with a

National Action Plan on Climate

Change in line with its

responsibility under the Bali road

map

In the end. . .

• The final agreement failed to meet UN ambitions, with participating nations agreeing only to “take note” of the deal eventually brokered by China, US, Brazil, India and South Africa.

• President Obama, whose representatives called the deal a “meaningful agreement”, has also recognised that the progress made was “not enough.”

have to think again...

• Representatives from

environmental organisations

and the developing world

have denounced the deal as

insufficient and unacceptable.

• The accord is a statement of

intent, recording a promise

by the 193 member states to

combat climate change

within their own countries,

but lacking any real

enforceability.

To Save Planet...

• Global Warming is a dramatically urgent and serious problem. We don’t need to wait for governments to find a solution for this problem

• Each individual can bring an important help adopting a responsible life style

Act now...

• Starting from little everyday things

• for example: - save water save life -start using public

transport -using recycler things and stop trashing and

burning non biodegradable wastes

Now or never...

-stop wasting energy and start using energy economically

-start using green artictecture and organic things

-saving our life saver forests

Take initiative...be smart...

• Being responsible is the only way to save our homes

• So please give attention to those small things which can harm us

• And give what we got to save our world before its too late

lets take a pledge

today for a better greener ‘safer tomorrow to be together