ARTICLE: The Pacific leading by example - actions on the table to stop climate change The climate change negotiations have a language of their own and this year a key word on the block is INDCs, that stands for Intended Nationally Determined Contributions. Its this language on paper that aims to fix the climate change crises, the effects of which Pacific island communities are feeling, and feeling hard. Although our region contributes to less than 0.03% of the worlds total greenhouse gas emissions, it is amongst the most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change the full specter of issues that climate change and global warming brings. This week in Lima, Peru the international community will meet for the 20th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention to Climate Change to continue laying the foundation for a new climate change agreement to be signed off by the end of 2015 in Paris next year. This agreement will see the world working together to lower greenhouse gas emissions to curb global warming however the Alliance of Small Island States are clear in their call for the world to limit global warming to below 1.5 degrees celcius by 2100. One way to progress this is through Intended Nationally Determined Contributions which were introduced at the Warsaw climate change conference in December last year. These are the domestic actions underway using resources already in place to lower greenhouse gas emissions and are a requirement for all parties to the UN Climate Convention. “While the Pacific have low emissions by global standards there have been strong calls from Pacific leaders that the region should also contribute, said Mr. Espen Ronneberg, Climate Change Adviser of the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP). Click here to read more: bit.ly/1zN0sSh #SPREP #PacificEnvironment #ClimateChange
Posted on: Tue, 02 Dec 2014 22:58:23 +0000
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