United Nations Climate Change Conference COP16 has been kicked off day before yesterday in Cancun, Mexico and to be continued on from 29 November to 10 December 2010. This 16 Conference of the Parties, abbreviated as COP 16, has been aimed to get a joint commitment and compromise from 192 nations. Delegates from the concerned nations are expected to get together by the 10th of December to be determined a collective, international approach to curtail down their increasing global temperatures.
The objective was solidified when Christiana Figueres, the executive secretary of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), in her opening speech said: “Cancun can launch a new era in the pace of global action on climate change, where each year brings increasingly effective answers to keep humanity on track to a safer future”
A research work revealed by Royal Society’s Philosophical Transactions: A journal on 30th November forecasted that the world’s temperature might hike 4 degree Celsius or (7.2F) by the end of 2060 if it is not properly taken care of or doesn’t get checked. The consequence might fall on us as shortage of drinking water, loss of marine life and to cope up with such changes might prove to be astronomical for the nations.
NASA researchers confirmed that the world is being warmed up more expeditiously in the last thirty years than ever before.
Carol Werner, the executive director of the Environmental and Energy Study Institute (EESI) in Washington D.C., has expressed his hope even from some climate change deniers for some responsible outcomes in this COP 16:
i) He would look for a formal agreement between countries and companies to curb black carbon, or soot produced by the diesel burning or smoke emitted from the cook-stoves and open burning heat and energy sources.
ii) And a respectful intervention on behalf of United States and China to continue monitoring, reporting and verifying the consumption, production and emissions by the countries.
He commented that COP has become a place of exhibition where the companies showcase their own clean technologies and environmental best practices and lobby for politics to get a clean cheat.
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