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Long way to become climate leader
Posted : 2021-05-25 17:00 By Jang Daul
In 2016, Climate Home, a climate change online news outlet, named South Korea a world climate villain together with Saudi Arabia, Australia and New Zealand. The report was based on the analysis from Climate Action Tracker (CAT), an independent scientific research organization.
The major reasons why Korea received the unpleasant title were the sharp increase of its per capita greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, its public financial support for overseas coal-fired power investment and its abandonment of the 2020 GHG reduction target.
When the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was signed in 1992, South Korea was not included in Annex I Parties comprising the industrialized countries and those with economies in transition.
The world is having to tackle three major emergencies at the same time. The first is obviously the Covid-19 pandemic that is still raging around the world, the second is climate change, which is also getting much worse every year, and finally, there is biodiversity loss, which will mean the loss of up to a million species if we cannot stem the tide.
What is being done and what more needs to be done, at both the global as well as national levels?
At the global level, for climate change, we have the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. For biodiversity, we have the Convention on Biodiversity (CBD), and for Covid-19, we have the World Health Organization (WHO) and its COVAX vaccine initiative. Both the CBD and UNFCCC will be holding their respective annual Conference of Parties (COP) in the next few months.