Dr.N.Radha krishna - My Blog

At the outset ; I CAN TELL TWO THINGS THAT MUST BE DONE AT INDIVIDUAL LEVEL --- Postpone the comforts ,Reduce the luxuries . This philosophy of humans will automatically will cut down emissions to the desired levels as the industry which promotes these will divert their activities more towards the necessity of the total mankind.


The 1992 Earth summit at Rio De Janeiro was unique to get world leaders to agree o an urgent action plan to significantly cut down carbon emissions, save the world`s forests, preserve biodiversity and help poor nations combat climate change. The rich nations promised much but did little. INDUSTRIALISED NATIONS DRAGGED THEIR FEET OVER BINDING EMISSION CUTS AND PROVIDING THE FUNDS AND CLEAN TECHNOLOGY TO POOR NATIONS TO HELP THEM COMBAT CLIMATE CHANGE.

In a world where people worry for their next meal , who is worried about something happenening after 50 yrs ?

Any thing to be done is basically the resonsibility of the nations / people who are responsible to heal the wounds caused by them . Only this approach of repentence and humanity can save the Earth from going into flames by our emissions ( supposedly believed by majority of scientists with permissible human errors ).

The US , then the world`s largest emitter of green house gases, stood isolated.Finally, a framework agreement on climate change was reached at Rio that would take another five years to become the Kyoto Protocol in 1997 and another eight to come into effect in 2005.

The governing law is the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change signed in 1992. It is unambiguous. "The developed country Parties shall provide new and additional financial resources to meet the agreed full costs incurred by developing country Parties in complying with their obligations" under the treaty. Moreover, "developed country Parties shall also assist the developing country Parties that are particularly vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change in meeting costs of adaptation to those adverse effects." The treaty emphasizes the need for "adequacy and predictability in the flow of funds." Kyoto protocol's goal is to divide the whole world into two, one who can afford making changes to their existing infrastructure and the ones who cannot. Two key building blocks for that framework may take shape here:

1. Setting targets for controlling emissions of carbon dioxide and other global-warming gases, including by the leading contributors, China and the United States.
2. Agreeing on how much rich countries should pay for poor nations' clean energy technology and for seawalls, irrigation and other projects to counter a changing climate.

Copenhagen was the occasion to fix a broken system. We need, in short, an assessment formula. Member states of the International Monetary Fund pay assessments based on an agreed quota formula; likewise, the UN requires member states to pay an assessment for its budget. We need clear formulas as well for development and climate financing.

But,Copenhagen has created a new accord which does not have any human touch unlike Kyoto Protocol and Bali action plan. The emerging outcome was a disappointment to those who had anticipated the Copenhagen Accord would be turned into a legally binding treaty. Lumumba Di-Aping, the Sudanese ambassador who chairs the bloc of developing countries, called it "extremely flawed." "A gross violation has been committed today against the poor, against the tradition of transparency and participation of equal footing for all parties of the convention and against common sense," he said, complaining that Obama negotiated the pact in one-on-one meetings and a forum of 25 nations. The document said carbon emissions should be reduced enough to keep the increase in average temperature below 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit), which is stronger than in any previous declaration accepted by the rich countries. However, environmental groups called it a meaningless aspiration. "The deal is a triumph of spin over substance. It recognizes the need to keep warming below 2 degrees but does not commit to do so. Instead, it envisions another year of negotiations and leaves myriad details yet to be decided.US and others shall adher only to the accord sidelining and weakening the Bali Action Plan and the UN convention which are more human and heavier demands on them and finally making the accord as template at Mexico.

By all this, we can set a road map to Mexico 2010 letting only the rich countries with whom Obama negotiated in one-on -one meetings and a forum of 25 nations and arrived at an acoord to attend at Mexico rather than all 193 nations who attended Copenhagen summit.The reason being the confusions and conflicts between the existing groups; G-8,G-20 ,G77,Islandnations,poor nations etc, etc.The nations who are the culprits of huge emissions and bound to reductions and who are rich enough either in cash or tehnology to contribute ,need to attend the Mexico summit and come to a final and committed resolution to keep the increase in average temperature below 2 degrees celsius.FINALLY IT MEANS , THE CONTRIBUTORS OF EMISSIONS, CASH & TECHNOLOGY (THE REAL PLAYERS WITHOUT ANY AUDIENCE) SHOULD ONLY SIT TO GIVE A ROAD MAP TO REACH THE UNANIMOUSLY ACCEPTED GOAL AS MENTIONED ABOVE.

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