Climate Change is Real.
Even a single step can get us far.
HOW ARE WE HELPING?
“Is anything being done on climate change?”
We heard it multiple times already - Climate Change, Global Warming - It is all our problem. And yes, something is being done.
Let's #ActionProEarth or #Iamwith(insertglobeemoji) and remember all those quotes about "a single step" because really, "Even a single step can get us far."
THE PARIS AGREEMENT
12 December 2015
At COP 21 in Paris, on 12 December 2015, Parties to the UNFCCC reached a landmark agreement to combat climate change and to accelerate and intensify the actions and investments needed for a sustainable low carbon future. The Paris Agreement builds upon the Convention and – for the first time – brings all nations into a common cause to undertake take ambitious efforts to combat climate change and adapt to its effects, with enhanced support to assist developing countries to do so. As such, it charts a new course in the global climate effort.
UNITED NATIONS FRAMEWORK CONVENTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE
In order to prevent the most severe impacts of climate change, the countries that signed up to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) have agreed to limit the global mean surface temperature increase since pre-industrial times to less than 2 °C. To achieve this objective, global greenhouse gas emissions should peak as soon as possible and decrease rapidly thereafter. Global emissions should be reduced by 50 % compared with 1990 levels by 2050, before achieving carbon-neutrality before the end of the century. The EU supports the UNFCCC objective and, by 2050, it aims to have reduced its greenhouse gas emissions by 80 – 95 % compared with 1990 levels. These high reduction levels take into account the lower reductions required from developing countries.
THE KYOTO PROTOCOL
16 February 2005
The Kyoto Protocol is an international agreement linked to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, which commits its Parties by setting internationally binding emission reduction targets.
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Recognizing that developed countries are principally responsible for the current high levels of GHG emissions in the atmosphere as a result of more than 150 years of industrial activity, the Protocol places a heavier burden on developed nations under the principle of "common but differentiated responsibilities."
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The Kyoto Protocol was adopted in Kyoto, Japan, on 11 December 1997 and entered into force on 16 February 2005. The detailed rules for the implementation of the Protocol were adopted at COP 7 in Marrakesh, Morocco, in 2001, and are referred to as the "Marrakesh Accords." Its first commitment period started in 2008 and ended in 2012.
