The science is complex, but the facts are clear. The world must act to limit2 ° C increase in global temperature, a goal that will require global emissions of greenhouse gases reach a peak and begin to fall over the next five to 10 years. Further warming of 3 º C to 4 º C - the lowest increase we can expect if we keep doing nothing - can lead to dry continent, turning farmland into desert. Half of all species could become extinct, millions of people could be displaced, entire nations flooded by the sea. Few believe that Copenhagen can produce a treaty; real progress in this direction onlymight arise with the arrival of President Barack Obama to the White House and the reversal of years of U.S. obstructionism. Even now, the world is dependent on American domestic politics, because the president can not fully commit to the shares until the U.S. Congress has done. But the politicians in Copenhagen can and should define the essentials of a fair and effective and in particular to establish a timeline to turn it into a treaty. The climate meeting of the United Nations next June, in Bonn (Germany), would be the deadline. As one negotiator put it: "the N &ment and China take me atitudes radicais mais do that as utilized at the facility até agora. More or world desenvolvido é responsável pela most parts of the carbon stored na atmosphere - three quarters of all or carbon dioxide (CO2) since 1850. For isso, accurate take liderança: all countries you are engaging Devem desenvolvido fazer deep cuts in emissivo suas reduzindo decade uma muito mais níveis do that you baixos 1990. I countries em desenvolvimento podem não causaram to argue that most parts of the problem and that as Regiões mais aussi poor will do mundo com mais força ATINGIDOSincrease emissions. A future treaty must also be pinned - with close monitoring multilateral, fair compensation for forest protection and reliable evaluations of "emissions exported, " that the cost may in time be more evenly divided between those who produce polluting products and those who consume them. And justice requires that the weight with which each developed country should afford individually take into account their ability to support it, new European Union members, for example, usually much poorer than the old , n &born of conflict and competition, the race of the carbon that comes out there should be led by a joint effort to achieve collective salvation. victory on climate change will require a triumph of optimism over pessimism, the view of myopia, the success of what Abraham Lincoln called "the better angels of our nature" . is in this spirit that 56 newspapers around the world have united behind this editorial. If we, with such different national and political perspectives, we can agree on what should be done, then surely our l & iacute; doest can too. The politicians in Copenhagen
fear power to shape the trial of history about this generation: a generation that saw a challenge and rose, or one so stupid, who saw the disaster coming but did nothing to prevent it. We implore you to make the right choice.
Source: Journal Catarinense , Zero Hour, The Guardian , La Brújula Digital Posted via CH
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