{"id":258029,"date":"2023-08-30T20:39:54","date_gmt":"2023-08-30T15:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=258029"},"modified":"2023-08-30T20:39:54","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T15:09:54","slug":"rising-climate-risks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/rising-climate-risks\/","title":{"rendered":"Rising climate risks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source<\/strong>: The post is based on the article\u00a0\u201cRising climate risks<\/strong>\u201d published in<\/strong> Business Standard <\/strong>on\u00a030th<\/sup> August 2023<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Syllabus: GS 3 \u2013 Environment \u2013 Climate change<\/strong><\/p>\n

Relevance: <\/strong>About increasing climate risks.<\/strong><\/p>\n

News:<\/strong> The article explains the current situation of climate change and measures required to address it.<\/p>\n

What are some of the consequences resulting from climate change?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Global temperatures hit record highs<\/strong> in June and July 2023. Forest fires, ocean temperatures, and extreme weather events are on the rise.<\/p>\n

Despite 30 years of climate action, greenhouse gas emissions increased from<\/strong> 30 to 48 billion tonnes of CO2 equivalent between 1990 and 2019.<\/p>\n

What are the causes of increasing GHG emission?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Developing countries are the major contributors to the increase in greenhouse gas emissions.<\/p>\n

However, this is not a violation of the UNFCCC because it recognizes the legitimate needs of developing countries to achieve sustained economic growth and eradicate poverty.<\/p>\n

The Berlin mandate of the UNFCCC recognized<\/strong> that developed countries have emitted more greenhouse gases historically, and they need to take the lead in reducing emissions.<\/p>\n

However, China’s emissions should not be included in the developing country emission estimates.<\/p>\n

Why should China’s emissions be excluded from developing country estimates?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

China’s per capita emissions have increased significantly since<\/strong> 1990, accounting for 54% of the global emission rise and surpassing Western Europe’s per capita emissions. Hence, China should be excluded from the category of developing countries.<\/p>\n

However, between 1990 and 2020, emissions from developed countries have also decreased significantly.<\/p>\n

What factors have led to the reduction in emissions in developed nations?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

GHG emissions fell by 2724 million tonnes CO2e from 1990 to 2020. This drop is mainly due to industry collapse<\/strong> in Russia and East Europe, rather than climate-friendly policies.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Therefore, developed countries and China remain primary concerns for climate risk management because their per capita emissions are higher than India and other developing countries.<\/p>\n

Moreover, the current efforts taken for climate justice is also not efficient.<\/p>\n

Must Read: <\/strong>On climate change, wealthy nations must show the way<\/strong><\/a> and <\/strong>The economics of climate change in India<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

What is causing the lack of effectiveness in current climate mitigation efforts?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Climate justice hasn’t influenced global climate diplomacy.<\/strong> The Paris Agreement<\/strong><\/a> changed diplomacy by easing pressure on developed nations and including developing countries in mitigation commitments.<\/p>\n

The net-zero<\/strong><\/a> announcements of high-emitting developing countries are also not fair because to limit global temperature increase to 1.5\u00b0C, total emissions should be averaging at 1.8 tonnes per capita until the net-zero target.<\/p>\n

Globally, India is the only country that is on track<\/strong> to meet the 1.8 tonne target.<\/p>\n

What can be done to mitigate climate change?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

First,<\/strong> major changes are needed in production and consumption patterns to prevent climate change.<\/p>\n

In developed countries<\/strong>, the challenge is greater because the present production and consumption patterns enhance climate risks.\u00a0Whereas, in developing countries,<\/strong> it is easier to reorient the future development patterns.<\/p>\n

Second,<\/strong> developing country activist groups and research organizations need to increase their pressure-generating efforts, especially in India.<\/p>\n

Third,<\/strong> there is a need to project the significant shortfall in commitments from the US, China, and other developed countries. This projection should align with fair distribution of mitigation responsibility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: The post is based on the article\u00a0\u201cRising climate risks\u201d published in Business Standard on\u00a030th August 2023. Syllabus: GS 3 \u2013 Environment \u2013 Climate change Relevance: About increasing climate risks. News: The article explains the current situation of climate change and measures required to address it. What are some of the consequences resulting from climate… Continue reading Rising climate risks<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[10503,59,216],"class_list":["post-258029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-business-standard","tag-environment","tag-gs-paper-3","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}