Monday, December 13, 2010

37 Weeks Pregnant, Sore Throat

Are 12 days sufficient to address climate change? Science

probably need more. Still, this is what has gone on the 2010 climate summit in Cancun. For most, the governments of participating countries reached the "Agreements of Cancun." With this package (accused by many media outlets as "modest" and rejected by the Government of Bolivia ), will attempt to design a "Green Fund" which involves measures for the protection of forests and increasing use of clean energy. Nor is forgotten, protection and assistance to developing countries that do not have sufficient means to combat climate change, and are those most suffering (thanks to the commitment of raising 100 billion dollars annually over the next 10 years.)
These agreements also set the commitment of limiting temperature increase to less than two degrees Celsius .
Still, these documents do not clearly reflect the process of collection, nor the progress of the extension of the principles of the Kyoto Protocol .


However, despite the "fog" of the objectives achieved the summit, the Secretary-General United Nations, Ban Ki-moon , congratulated the government of Mexico for its work and good conduct of the negotiations. In fact, both agree that "these agreements will lead to more effective action against global warming."

Whatever scenario achievement in Cancun, we must also stress that the implementation of the agreements, will be held next year in climate summit to be held in Sudáfric a. They await the development of the "Green Fund" and more restrictive policies for the U.S. and China, among others. But one of the most important aspects of the Summit 2010 (which has not surfaced and are discussed at the next summit), has been the rejection of proposals for small island states who fear their demise by rising sea levels (global warming = melting ice sheets and glaciers, rising sea levels =).



With all this, Cancun has achieved progress on the previous summit in 2009, but still a long way to go if we want this to end and providing a better life to our children.

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