Aleksander Čeferin pledges UEFA support for European Climate Pact Wednesday 16 December 2020
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European football’s governing body ready to do everything it can to help achieve EU’s vision of a climate neutral economy by 2050.
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President Aleksander Čeferin announced UEFA’s support for the European Climate Pact on Wednesday, pledging to use football’s global reach to raise awareness of the climate emergency and inspire more people to take action to save the planet.
Launched in Brussels last week, the European Climate Pact invites people, communities and organisations to pro-actively contribute to the Green Deal – the European Union’s (EU) plan to create an economy with net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.
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Last weekend marked the five year anniversary of the Paris Agreement: an ambitious global action plan designed to fight climate change and address its negative impacts the world over.
The agreement was adopted by nearly every nation in 2015.
The Bahamas embraced the Paris Agreement soon after it was created, signing the accord in April 2016 and ratifying the agreement in August of that same year.
While The Bahamas’ involvement in the Paris Agreement is certainly a step in the right direction in the process of recognizing and responding to climate change, scientists and climate experts maintain that the country still has a long road ahead.
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Youth play an important and unique role in mitigating and adapting to the impacts of climate change. They can and do contribute to promoting sustainable and environmentally-friendly practices, conserving and restoring the environment and ecosystems, and implementing adaptation and mitigation action.
Therefore, it is important to ensure that youth are involved at all levels of climate action, including formulating, implementing, and monitoring and evaluating interventions related to addressing climate impacts. This includes negotiation processes as well as policy and planning processes at the local, national, and global level.
Article 6 of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and Article 12 of the Paris Agreement highlight the important role that the youth play in addressing climate change impacts. Further, UNFCCC adopted the term Action for Climate Empowerment (ACE) to set out goals to emp
ECOWAS Commission’s President Jean Claude Kassi Brou reiterated the importance of collective action to support the effective implementation of the NDCs and of the Paris Agreement, as part of a united and concerted approach, starting at the regional level,
He added that the commission joined in the collective mobilisation by supporting the efforts of its member states within the framework of its mission and its mandate.
He said the strategy would also make it possible to support transnational initiatives and mobilize additional financial resources for sustainable, low-carbon and resilient development, which contributes to the fight against poverty and food insecurity, for the well-being of the populations of West Africa.
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On April 22, 2016, the United States, along with over 170 other nations, signed the Paris Agreement on climate change. Negotiated in December 2015, the agreement contains both binding and non-binding commitments intended to combat global warming by shifting the global energy economy away from the use of natural resources such as coal, natural gas, and oil, and toward renewable sources like solar and wind power. As part of its Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDC), the Obama Administration announced plans to reduce U.S. greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in 2025 by 26 percent to 28 percent compared to 2005 levels.[1] If the U.S. follows through with this plan, American households and businesses will incur higher energy costs. These increased costs will, in turn, slow economic growth and reduce per capita income growth while having little to no impact on the projected warming.