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India on Tuesday said that the idea of a climate action should not be to move the goal post to 2050 and countries must fulfil their pre-2020 commitments, calling on the global community to view climate change as a wakeup call to strengthen multilateralism and seek equitable solutions for a sustainable world. Minister for Environment, Forests and Climate Change Prakash Javadekar, addressing the UN Security Council s open debate on Maintenance of international peace and security: Addressing climate-related risks to international peace and security said the delivery on the commitment by developed countries to jointly mobilise USD 100 billion per year by 2020 in support of climate action in developing countries has been elusive.
Greenhouse gas sinks By Bhaskar Anand
It was 1965 when the U.S. president s advisory panel warned that the greenhouse effect is a matter of real concern for this planet. In 1972 the first United Nations (UN) environment conference was organized in Stockholm, Sweden, concluding emerging concerns about climate change. As an immediate response, they also laid the foundations of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) to mitigate the rising climate issues. Further, in 1988, UNEP established the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to collate and assess evidence on climate change.
The scientific assessments on climate change by IPCC suggested that for the 20th-century the average global temperature increased by 0.85°C. As a result, the oceans expanded due to warming and ice melt led to an average sea level rise of 19cm. By the start of the 21st century, global emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) had almost doubled since 1990. Consequently, it is expected that
US Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry said as nations go to Glasgow, they have to be real about exactly "what we need to do starting now. What steps will we take in the next 10 years? And the truth is that everybody has to do that. China, which is the largest emitter in the world, needs to be part of the 2020 to 2030 effort".