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[FEATURE] Climate Change Deadline 2030

Climate Change Deadline 2030:
What will happen if failed?
By Rohaina Dansal

 

Photo by Markus Spiske

Nine years from now, experts warn that we may not stop the irreversible effects of climate change if the world temperature continues to rise, based on the anticipated 2030 climate change deadline.

The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a consortium of the world’s leading climate scientists, made a special report in 2018 about the world’s climate change. Before this report, was the birth of the Paris Agreement on December 12, 2015.

To combat climate change and global warming, the Paris Agreement was adopted by 195 countries across the globe. It is a legally binding international treaty that came into force on November 4, 2016. The goal of the agreement is to keep the global temperature below 2 degrees Celsius or preferably up to 1.5 degrees Celsius till the end of the century. It is also a goal to reduce carbon emissions worldwide to 50% by 2030 and fully eradicate it by 2050.

Failing to achieve and realize the 2030 deadline does not mean that the world will explode due to extreme heat. However, according to experts, there might be a birth of irreversible damage to the world. It means that climate change may cause calamities and unprecedented events that can no longer be treated.

"I've had a lot of people ask me, including the media, whether the 2030 date is the apocalypse. And I've said, ‘No, that is not what we said,” Diana Liverman, a professor at the University of Arizona was one of the 90 scientists who wrote and reviewed the 2018 report by IPCC.

“The differences between 1.5 and 2, they're serious, but they're not apocalyptic,” Liverman added.

The wildfire crisis burned millions of hectares of forest land last year in countries of Australia, Brazil, and the Amazon. Destructive tennis ball-sized hail storms are experienced in Texas, USA. In China, Germany, and other countries, severe flooding has destroyed properties, affecting millions of homes and recorded casualties. Philippines on the other hand, was devastated by several super typhoons and even sudden changes of weather like downdrafts and tornados. And the most alarming one is the melting of huge ice glaciers in Antarctica that continue to show large cracks today. These are all the early visible effects felt in the present due to climate change.

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change stated that the Paris Agreement is a landmark in the multilateral climate change process because, for the first time, a binding agreement brings all nations into a common cause to undertake ambitious efforts to combat climate change and adapt to its effects.

As Mr. Hoesung Lee, the chairman of IPCC, stated during their special report on global warming in 2018, “Every bit of warming matters, and every bit of human action matters.”


 

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