Tuesday, January 8, 2013

What you need to know about the Climate in 2013




         On December 8, 2012 all 190 countries got together to complete the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) meeting formally known as the COP18, short for 18th Conference of the Parties. The events of this meeting were humble but so were the desires. All parties made advancement on the decision made last years meeting. The parties agreed to negotiate a new forum that states that all countries be on the same standing, rather than remaining with the constant differences between industrialized and developing countries. The next types forward according to the new forum will be to develop more pro-active strategies to mitigate risks and improve resilience to extreme weather events, like the ones that happened in Japan and more recently in the United States with Hurricane Sandy.
            They should push this form sooner than they plan. The agreement is to be prepared by the year 2015 and to be enforced by the year 2020. That is five years to long. They should conclude it as a faster rate since the climate changes are at the top of the agenda and enforced a year or two after the conclusion of the agreement.
            With the big time gap there might be some countries that change their mind and no longer think that this forum is needed. They can back out and that would be a big set back because the point of the agreement is to have developing and developed countries fairly at the same footing.
            I say go for it. This can be a good thing fro all countries, the more strategies and plans for when this natural disasters happen the safer people will be. And the best part is that even developing countries get in it. They all deserve a chance to survive and move on from extreme weather events.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/thomas-kerr/outcomes-from-the-doha-un_b_2397134.html
JOCELIN GAMBOA

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