{"id":54230,"date":"2019-12-17T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-17T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogadmin.forumias.com\/?p=54230"},"modified":"2020-02-26T15:31:11","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T10:01:11","slug":"7-pm-climate-of-inaction-on-un-climate-change-conference-17th-december-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/7-pm-climate-of-inaction-on-un-climate-change-conference-17th-december-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"7 PM | Climate of inaction: On UN climate change conference | 17th December 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Context:\n<\/strong>Outcome\nof UNFCCC\u2019s COP25 held at Madrid, Spain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>More\nin news:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The UN Framework Convention on Climate\nChange (UNFCCC) conference was held from 2 to 13 December 2019 in Madrid,\nSpain.<\/li><li>Despite extending the meeting for 2\ndays, the outcome is disappointing.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>UNFCCC:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The UNFCCC entered into force on 21\nMarch 1994.<\/li><li>The 197 countries that have ratified the\nConvention are called Parties to the Convention.<\/li><li>The UNFCCC is a \u201cRio Convention\u201d, one of\nthree adopted at the \u201cRio Earth Summit\u201d in 1992. <\/li><li>Its sister Rio Conventions are the UN\nConvention on Biological Diversity and the Convention to Combat\nDesertification.<\/li><li>The UNFCCC borrowed a very important\nline from one of the most successful multilateral environmental treaties in\nhistory (the Montreal Protocol, in 1987): it bound member states to act in the\ninterests of human safety even in the face of scientific uncertainty.<\/li><li>The ultimate objective of the Convention\nis to stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations &#8220;at a level that would\nprevent dangerous anthropogenic (human induced) interference with the climate\nsystem.&#8221; <\/li><li>It states that &#8220;such a level should\nbe achieved within a time-frame sufficient to allow ecosystems to adapt\nnaturally to climate change, to ensure that food production is not threatened,\nand to enable economic development to proceed in a sustainable manner.&#8221;<\/li><li>Industrialized nations agree under the\nConvention to support climate change activities in developing countries by\nproviding financial support for action on climate change&#8211; above and beyond any\nfinancial assistance they already provide to these countries. <\/li><li>A system of grants and loans has been\nset up through the Convention and is managed by the&nbsp;Global Environment\nFacility. Industrialized countries also agree to share technology with\nless-advanced nations.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Conference\nof the Parties (COP25):<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The UN Climate Change Conference COP 25\n(2 \u2013 13 December 2019) took place under the Presidency of the Government of\nChile and was held with logistical support from the Government of Spain.&nbsp;<\/li><li>The conference is designed to take\nthe&nbsp;next crucial steps&nbsp;in the UN climate change\nprocess.&nbsp;Following agreement on the implementation guidelines&nbsp;of the\nParis Agreement at COP 24 in Poland last year, a key objective is&nbsp;to\ncomplete several matters with respect to the&nbsp;full operationalization of\nthe Paris Climate Change Agreement.<\/li><li>The conference will include the\ntwenty-fifth session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 25), the fifteenth\nsession of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties\nto the Kyoto Protocol (CMP 15), and the second session of the Conference of the\nParties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Paris Agreement (CMA 2).<\/li><li>The Conference of the Parties \u2013 meeting\nas COP, CMP and CMA \u2013 serves two main purposes:<\/li><li>To review the implementation of the\nConvention, the Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement, respectively; and<\/li><li>To adopt decisions to further develop\nand implement these three instruments.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Outcome\nof the Madrid Conference:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>After two extra days and nights of\nnegotiations, delegates finally agreed a deal that will see new, improved\ncarbon cutting plans on the table by the time of the Glasgow conference next\nyear.<\/li><li>Few countries came to this year\u2019s talks\nwith updated plans to reach the Paris goals, though the EU finally agreed its\nlong-term target of reaching net zero emissions by 2050.<\/li><li>This year\u2019s UN talks focused on narrow\ntechnical issues such as the workings of the global carbon markets, a means by\nwhich countries can trade their successes in cutting emissions with other\ncountries that have not cut their own emissions fast enough. However, no\nagreement has been reached and the issue will be resolved next year.<\/li><li>A \u201chigh ambition coalition\u201d made up of\nthe EU and many smaller developing countries pressed for a resolution to ask\nall governments to formulate stronger national plans on cutting carbon.\nHowever, no substantive decision on future emission cuts was made.<\/li><li>Weary negotiators wrangled over the\nwording of provisions for \u201closs and damage\u201d, by which developing countries are\nhoping to receive financial assistance for the ravages they face from climate\nbreakdown. <\/li><li>The US was blamed for refusing to agree\nto developing countries\u2019 demands under what is known in the UN jargon as the\nWarsaw International Mechanism (WIM).<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>India\u2019s\nstand:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>India played a strong role in critiquing\nthe developed world\u2019s continuing poor record on climate action.<\/li><li>It argued that unless a stocktaking\nexercise of the fulfillment of various pre-2020 commitments by developed\ncountries (such as those made at Copenhagen, Cancun and Kyoto) showed that they\nwere making significant progress, India would not raise its climate ambition\nfor its next round of Paris Agreement targets due in 2020.<\/li><li>India also took a lead in calling for\nmore finance for developing countries for climate action. India emphasised that\n\u201cnot even 2 per cent\u201d of the promised \u201c$1 trillion in the last 10 years\u201d had\nbeen delivered.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>India\u2019s\nProgress:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>India\u2019s headline pledge under its NDC is\nto reduce the emission intensity of its GDP (greenhouse gas, or GHG, emissions\nper unit GDP) by 33-35 per cent over 2005 levels by 2030, and the 2019\nEmissions Gap Report notes that the country is on track to exceed it by 15 per\ncent.<\/li><li>In addition, India has committed to\ngenerate 40 per cent of its installed power capacity from non-fossil sources by\n2030, with an interim target of 175 GW of non-hydro renewables by 2022. While\nIndia is on track to meet the 2030 target, it may fall short of the interim\ntarget by as much as 42 per cent, warns a 2019 report by CRISIL, a Mumbai-based\nglobal analytics firm.<\/li><li>India has also pledged an additional\ncarbon sink equivalent to 2.5-3 billion tonnes of CO2 by 2030 through forest\nand tree cover. But the Union government\u2019s Green India Mission, which seeks to\nachieve the same, has been regularly missing its annual targets, and rendering\nthe&nbsp;fulfilment of the pledge unlikely.<\/li><li>Overall, the Climate Action Tracker has\nrated the country\u2019s efforts as \u20182 degree compatible\u2019, which means that if all\ncountries made efforts like India\u2019s, the average global temperature rise could\nbe limited to 2\u00b0C by 2100. India is the world&#8217;s only major economy to be rated\nso.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Way\nForward:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>All parties will need to address the gap\nbetween what the science says is necessary to avoid dangerous climate change,\nand the current state of play which would see the world go past this threshold\nin the 2030s.<\/li><li>As India prepares to face calls for\nhigher ambition in 2020 and beyond, India has to involve its States in\nmitigation and adaptation efforts.&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Source:\n<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/opinion\/editorial\/climate-of-inaction-on-un-climate-change-conference\/article30323331.ece\">https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/opinion\/editorial\/climate-of-inaction-on-un-climate-change-conference\/article30323331.ece<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/opinion\/editorials\/cop-25-climate-change-talks-in-madrid-6170500\/\">https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/opinion\/editorials\/cop-25-climate-change-talks-in-madrid-6170500\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Context: Outcome of UNFCCC\u2019s COP25 held at Madrid, Spain. 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