Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Climate change: Talks jolted by surge in greenhouse gas emissions!

Have you read my Novella, “Mayhem of the Miserables!” available @ http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/52075

FIONA HARVEY / The Hindu.


The record leap in global greenhouse gas emissions last year has thrown the spotlight on the world’s only concerted attempt to stem the tide of global warming — the United Nations climate negotiations.
Next week, governments will convene in Bonn, Germany, for the latest round of more than 20 years of tortuous talks, aimed at forging a binding international agreement on climate change which so far has eluded them.
Little is expected of the meeting, a staging post on the road to a bigger conference in Durban, South Africa, in December. But the data from the International Energy Agency (IEA) should shock even the most jaded of negotiators.
For as long as Nations haggle on binding emission cuts, based on who has been responsible for the the most historical emissions and who is now doing.
A global solution applicable to all to ensure emissions are cut to mitigate the adverse effects of Climate Change and a permanent International Policy to switchover to sustainable energy solutions, as apposed to the high emitting, soon to be exhausted non-renewable fuel sources.
For a starter, all Nations - developed and emerging - should enact demand-side (i.e. consumption side) energy efficiency as, almost every Nation is spending more energy than actually needed, though irresponsible behavior, inefficient equipments and insensitive policies.
Full Story at,


No comments:

Post a Comment