UNEP |
The United Nations Environment Programme is the leading global environmental authority that sets the global environmental agenda, promotes the coherent implementation of the environmental dimension of sustainable development within the United Nations system, and serves as an authoritative advocate for the global environment. Its mission is to provide leadership and encourage partnership in caring for the environment by inspiring, informing, and enabling nations and peoples to improve their quality of life without compromising that of future generations.
Agenda: Preventing 1.5 °C of temperature rise by 2100
The climate crisis is not a story of the distant future. In 2018, IPCC, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, released a special report that we should prevent the rise in temperature from pre-industrial one below 1.5°C. According to the report, risks from drought, precipitation, sea-level rise, food shortage, and other disasters are much greater if the average temperature rises by 2°C than 1.5°C. The problem is that the average temperature has already risen by 1.1°C in the last 100 years, mainly due to human activities.
To evade unaffordable disasters, 197 nations signed the Paris Agreement in 2016 which aimed for maintaining the average temperature rise well below 2°C. However, according to Emissions Gap Report 2019 by UNEP, temperature can be expected to rise to 3.2 °C this century, if we just rely on the current climate commitments of the Paris Agreement. We need to close the 'commitment' gap between what we say we will do and what we need to do to prevent dangerous levels of climate change. Economies must shift to a decarbonization pathway now. In UNEP, delegates should discuss the way to prevent 1.5°C of temperature rise by 2100.
To evade unaffordable disasters, 197 nations signed the Paris Agreement in 2016 which aimed for maintaining the average temperature rise well below 2°C. However, according to Emissions Gap Report 2019 by UNEP, temperature can be expected to rise to 3.2 °C this century, if we just rely on the current climate commitments of the Paris Agreement. We need to close the 'commitment' gap between what we say we will do and what we need to do to prevent dangerous levels of climate change. Economies must shift to a decarbonization pathway now. In UNEP, delegates should discuss the way to prevent 1.5°C of temperature rise by 2100.
Countries List
1. The United States of America 2. Federative Republic of Brazil 3. Republic of India 4. Australia 5. Russian Federation 6. Republic of Korea 7. New Zealand 8. People’s Republic of China |
9. France 10. Federal Republic of Germany 11. United Kingdom 12. Kingdom of Bhutan 13. Republic of Kiribati 14. Mongolia 15. Kingdom of Sweden |