United Kingdom emissions targets ‘in line with global efforts’ on climate change

“The new deal must show to the world that governments are united, determined and serious when it comes to fighting climate change”.

To support this strengthening global action on climate change, the United Kingdom must continue its own efforts to cut carbon emissions at home…

Beyai stated this in his opening remarks at a training organised for Nigeria’s negotiators that will be at the Climate Change conference in Paris.

The lawmakers also call upon North Atlantic Treaty Organisation to improve strategic awareness of the security threats increasingly posed by climate change in the form of natural disasters; increased competition for natural resources such as food and water supplies; heightened migration pressures; and growing impacts on public health. In July, Addis Ababa hosted the third worldwide Conference on Financing for Development.

Global development banks have pledged to boost funding to help developing countries cope with climate change through the adoption of low-carbon technologies such as solar.

He reminded the trainees that “the current emissions on the greenhouse gas runs out in 2020, but what happens in the decade after that and beyond is the big question we need to ask ourselves”.

Green business leaders fear a repeat of the debate could be about to play out over the fifth carbon budget, with a few ministers likely to argue that a slower pace of decarbonisation through to the early 2030s would make it easier to mobilise investment in the fracking projects, new gas power plants, and airport expansion the Chancellor is known to favour.

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That’s a level that scientists say could result in risky changes in the Earth’s climate system, such as rising seas flooding coastal areas and small island nations.

The world’s most vulnerable people and countries – those that have done least to cause the planet’s warming – must take precedence in our response to the global climate challenge.

“Our actions today determine sea-level rise tomorrow”, said Dr. Strauss, from the scientific group Climate Central, in a statement. “But the summit will be a success if it commits countries to initial emission cut pledges and provides for a mechanism to increase these pledges in the coming years“. The main negotiators would be drawn from the experts present at the training.

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“At the moment, we come along with this target to the talks, ” he said, speaking on the sidelines of a climate conference in Rabat. India has been “unnecessarily cautious in setting its emission intensity targets”, says Prof Kornelis Blok of Ecofys, another member of CAT.

While worldwide cooperation is vital to the process, countries at differing stages of development will necessarily proceed at different speeds.

French Embassy Political Counsellor Nathalie Dupont, French Embassy’s Olivier Huynh Van, lawyer Parvez Hassan, Centre for Climate Research and Development’s (CCRD) Rina Saeed Khan, Taimoor Sohail also from the CCRD, Aisha Khan from the Mountain and Glacier Protection Organisation, worldwide Union for Conservation of Nature-Pakistan director general Mahmood Akhtar Cheema and Ali Tauqeer Sheikh from LEAD Pakistan also spoke on the occasion.