2024-02-29 21:20:08
Global climate change is a long-term process. During the Industrial Revolution in the 1750s, people began to overuse gasoline, gas, and coal. This has led to an increase in carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere. In the 1950s, as people began to use cars more, there was a large increase in CO2 in the atmosphere. These two periods in history are in some ways the start of the climate crisis.
As Day.Az reports, Parvana Veliyeva, a member of the “Environmental Protection First” coalition and the COP29 organizing committee, told Trend about this.
Increased emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases have increased average global temperatures by at least 1.1 degrees compared to pre-industrial times, she said. Although this figure may not seem that high over such a long period, in some places in India, summer temperatures are already rising 10-15 degrees above normal. The ice began to melt near the North Pole. According to scientists, average sea levels have risen significantly since 1880, and most of this rise has occurred in just the last 25 years.
The expert noted that in 2015 in Paris, world leaders signed an agreement within the framework of COP21. The Paris Agreement aims to keep the rise in average global temperatures to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels, while making efforts to limit the rise to 1.5°C. Some parties also have net-zero emissions targets. Since the problem is global, each country must define its own goals. A 2019 report by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) found that the potential damage from methane in the context of global warming, measured over 20 years, is 80 times greater than the damage from an equivalent volume of carbon dioxide. According to a recent IPCC report, methane accounts for about 18% of all greenhouse gas emissions from the global energy supply industry. Methane is also produced in landfills, agriculture, and natural processes such as decomposition. Achieving Global Methane Commitment (GMP) targets, such as reducing anthropogenic methane emissions by 30% by 2030, is critical to maintaining the 1.5°C temperature threshold.
“During COP28, the parties, as part of the Global Methane Commitment (GMP) initiative, committed to achieving a goal of reducing methane emissions by at least 30 percent compared to 2020 levels by 2030. COP28 was marked by a number of innovations:
1. More than $1 billion in funding has been mobilized to reduce methane emissions.
2. Along with decisive action on waste, food and agriculture, countries with major methane emissions from oil and gas must make new national commitments and legislative changes.
3. Development of transformative information tools, including the full launch of the Methane Alert and Response System, as well as new data for the methane campaign.
4. New members and expanded leadership. Canada, the Federated States of Micronesia, Germany, Japan and Nigeria have joined the United States and the European Union as supporters of the Global Methane Commitment. Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Romania and Angola also joined the pledge, bringing the number of participating countries to 155.
5. 49 oil and gas companies agreed to reduce methane emissions by 2030.
The fastest way to reduce global warming in the short term is to reduce methane emissions,” Velieva said.
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