United Nations expert says Climate change is a major threat to food security

“Current ambition must be the floor, not the ceiling, for future efforts”.

Narain said that CSE’s recent publication – Capitan America – US Climate Goals: A reckoning -had received little attention from the northern (western) media.

Delman’s presentation was entitled “The Inequality of Climate Change: A Vulnerability-Benefit Analysis of Fossil Fuel Carbon dioxide emissions”. As per her, urgent action is in need to give a response to the challenges climate change pose, but mitigation and adaptation policies must respect the right to food and other basic human rights. In China, the world’s No. 1 emitter, the ratio of respondents saying climate change is a very serious problem fell 23 percentage points, from 41% in 2010.

They called for a better transparency system to build trust and confidence in the Paris pact, as well as means to review the actions and support of various parties.

Meanwhile, several speakers at the briefing acknowledged the challenging nature of the ongoing climate negotiations, however overall the mood was one of optimism.

Negotiators plan to decide on a series of strategies, so that global warming can be kept below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-Industrial Revolutions levels, by the end of the century.

Vicky says that all eyes will be on Paris in December for the United Nations Conference on Climate Change as it is being seen as “the last chance saloon to reach a global agreement on carbon targets to limit climate change to manageable levels”.

The submission would serve as the basis of negotiating a new worldwide agreement, applicable to all countries, with the aim of keeping global warming below two degrees Celsius.

“All these climate incidents will negatively impact on crops, livestock, fisheries, aquaculture and on people’s livelihoods”, she said, saying that responding to climate change with large-scale production oriented agricultural models is not the correct solution to the serious issue.

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Climate change inequality can only be solved if countries place long-term worldwide cooperation at the forefront of their agendas, and actively seek common ground on how to share the cost burden of mitigating to and adapting to climate change, rather than focusing on addressing their own countries’ short-term economic interests.