Dear colleagues, Climate change is one of a global catastrophic risks.Therefore, what are the latest solving and treatments to the climate change problem?
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You spotted an issue with great relevance. May I argue that COVID-19 is one of the negative outcomes of climate change:
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Article Five Lessons from COVID-19 for Advancing Climate Change Mitigation
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Article The Economy, Climate Change and Infectious Diseases: Links a...
3) Robert Barouki et al. (2021). The COVID-19 pandemic and global environmental change: Emerging research needs, Environment International, Volume 146, January 2021, Open access:
Article The COVID-19 pandemic and global environmental change: Emerg...
Four innovations that energy experts told us to hold promise for slowing the march of climate change:
1. Solar panels and wind turbines
Solar panels and wind turbines turn the sun and wind into electricity without releasing greenhouse gases. As the technologies have scaled up and converted energy more efficiently, they have come down in price to become cheaper than fossil fuels globally.
2. Batteries for electric vehicles:
Lighter and smaller than earlier rechargeable batteries, lithium batteries can also be charged faster and more often.
3. Power-to-X:
Another way to store renewable energy is using electrolyzers to extract hydrogen from water. The process, also known as power-to-X, is a way of storing energy in different forms.
4. Carbon capture and storage:
Some companies are experimenting with capturing CO2 from power plants and storing it deep underground. By doing this with biomass plants where recently-grown plant matter is burned and not ancient fossils then power can be produced while reducing the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere.
Following recommendations in Kyoto and Paris agreements. Another is the documentary of disappearance of permafrost (soil with snow) in the Arctic circle.
We are in the middle of the sixth mass extinction in Earth's history. And this time, this process is caused by human actions. If the warming of the climate is not stopped, many ecosystems, species of living beings that are included in them, will become less diverse, less saturated. There are forecasts for the extinction of up to 30-40% of plant and animal species, since their habitats will change faster than they can adapt to these changes.
UN experts warn that warming will negatively affect crop yields, especially in underdeveloped countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America, leading to food problems. According to scientists, by 2080 the number of people facing the threat of hunger could increase by 600 million.
Another important consequence of climate change is the lack of drinking water. In regions with an arid climate (Central Asia, the Mediterranean, South Africa, Australia, etc.), the situation will be further aggravated by a decrease in precipitation.
Hunger, lack of water, and insect migration can lead to increased epidemics and the spread of tropical diseases such as malaria and fever in the northern regions.
Climate change can affect not only human health, but also increase the risk of political divisions and conflicts over access to water and food resources.
One of the most tangible consequences of climate warming, most likely, will be the melting of glaciers and the rise in the level of the World Ocean. Millions of people on the coast will die from frequent flooding or be forced to relocate, UN analysts predict.
According to the expert community, the sea level rise in the 21st century will be up to 1 m (in the 20th century - 0.1-0.2 m). In this case, the most vulnerable will be lowlands, coastal areas and small islands.
The first at risk are the Netherlands, Bangladesh and small island states such as the Bahamas and Maldives.
Significant areas can be flooded in countries such as Russia, USA, UK, Italy, Germany, Denmark, Belgium, Iraq, Thailand and Vietnam. Serious damage threatens China, where about 140 million people may lose their homes, and Japan, where more than 30 million people - a quarter of the country's population - can flood their homes.
UN Regulations
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
Organizations of the UN system are most active in saving our planet. In 1992, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change was adopted at the Earth Summit, which was the first step towards tackling climate change. At the moment, the composition of the States parties to the Convention is almost universal - the Convention has been ratified and is now by 197 states. The main goal of the Convention is to prevent “dangerous anthropogenic impact on the climate system”.
Kyoto Protocol
In 1995, countries began negotiations to strengthen the global response to climate change. The Kyoto Protocol was adopted two years later. This document obliges the developed countries - parties to the Protocol to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The first fulfillment period started in 2008 and ended in 2012. The second period began on January 1, 2013 and will end in 2020. 192 states are parties to the Kyoto Protocol.
Paris Agreement
At the 21st session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, a landmark agreement was concluded to combat climate change and catalyze the action needed to achieve sustainable low-carbon development. The Paris Agreement builds on the mandate of the Convention and, for the first time in history, brings all peoples together to take decisive steps to combat and mitigate climate change and to help developing countries do so. The main goal of the Paris Agreement is to strengthen the global response to climate change in order to keep the rise in global temperature in this century within 2 ° C and even try to bring it down to 1.5 ° C.
The Paris Agreement was signed at UN Headquarters in New York on April 22, 2016, on International Mother Earth Day, by 175 heads of state. This was a record number of countries that signed an international agreement in one day.
2019 United Nations Climate Summit
In September 2019, the UN Secretary General hosted a Climate Summit to discuss issues in this area. The summit focused on the key areas that are most relevant to meeting the challenges of climate change - heavy industry, natural solutions, cities, energy and climate finance. World leaders reported on action and forward-looking action plans that they will report on in 2020 at the UN Climate Conference, where commitments will be updated and possibly expanded. At the close of the Summit, the Secretary General noted that positive momentum has been set, cooperation has been strengthened and new goals have been set, but there is still a long way to go.
The latest release of my book has been made available:
Book The Rational Climate e-Book
Poyet, P., 2021. The Rational Climate e-Book: Cooler is Riskier. The Sorry State of Climate Science and Policies. February 8th, 120 Figures, 181 Equations, 451 pp., e-ISBN 978-99957-1-929-6
Low carbon societies can be established by maintaining the original CO2 balance trough integration of multiple tools, with contributions from diverse fields such as physics and chemistry, physiology and humanities, and education. On the basis of an international consensus, the environment must be protected no matter what sacrifices are required. As this book demonstrates, achieving a low carbon society is a top priority, and landscape conservation is the first step in ecological research toward that goal.
For example, improvements to energy efficiency and vehicle fuel economy, increases in wind and solar power, biofuels from organic waste, setting a price on carbon, and protecting forests are all potent ways to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide and other gases trapping heat on the planet.
Dear all, there are two theories behind the climat change. The first claims these changes as being a normal and natural change earth is experiencing. If this is the case, human contribution to work against is meaningless and useless. The second approach put in question both industrial emmissions and pollution, and excessive use of energy behind the climat disorder. If this is the case, much remedy strategies are adoptable, such as use green source of energy and limiting all sorts of singases. My Regards
Industrial emissions, pollution, and excessive use of energy are the main causes of climate pollution. So adhering to the climate convention may limit pollution