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Климат нашей планеты находится в крайне бедственном положении. Но мы все еще можем сделать многое для его спасения.
Введение карантина или режима самоизоляции во многих странах мира, которые были вызваны пандемией вируса COVID-19 в этом году, давали планете призрачную надежду на сокращение выбросов парниковых газов, но, как оказалось простого карантина оказалось недостаточно, чтобы остановить рост уровня углекислого газа, который в настоящее время является как никогда высоким.
Это неудивительно, учитывая, что 2020 го
Civil Society to Make More Inputs in Liberia’s Climate Pledges
Civil Society to Make More Inputs in Liberia’s Climate Pledges
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MONROVIA – Civil society organizations (CSOs) will make more inputs into Liberia’s revision of its commitment to the Paris Climate Agreement to cut down carbon emission by 15 percent by 2030.
CSOs, predominantly from the forestry sector, made limited inputs in the country’s plan known as the nationally determined contributions (NDC) at the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference. With the country preparing to submit a revised NDC to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) by mid next year, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and CSOs are working to ensure the latter’s participation in that process.
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Five years ago at the annual Conference of the Parties (COP21) in Paris, France, member countries of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) established ambitious targets and financial mechanisms to curb climate change, with the ultimate aim of limiting warming to well below 2° Celsius by 2100. The plan was officially ratified as the Paris Agreement in April 2016, and many governments have since enacted sweeping policies to meet their stated climate goals, known as nationally determined contributions (NDCs).
Adoption of the Paris Agreement, December 2015. Photo: UNclimatechange | CC BY 2.0
This year the UNFCCC was forced to postpone COP26 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Instead of November 2020 serving as a five-year anniversary of progress, it was marked by the U.S.’s official withdrawal from the Agreement under the Trump Administration. However, President-elect Joe Biden has vowed to rejoin the Paris Agreement within his first months, if
Temperatures rising
The climate is in a state of emergency. But there is still much we can do.
The worldwide lockdowns brought about by COVID-19 this year promised hope for the planet in reducing greenhouse gas emissions, but that was not enough to stop carbon dioxide levels from being higher than ever.
This is hardly a surprise, given that 2020 was marked with some of the wildest weather ever seen. Devastating cyclones and typhoons in South-East Asia, forest fires raging in Australia and California and brutal flooding in Central Africa add to the list of extreme events that 2020 will be remembered for.