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03/28/2012
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The former chief UN climate Yvo de Boer said on Tuesday (27) that the commitment to limit global warming to 2 ° C, which he helped to sew at the Copenhagen Summit in 2009, is now unattainable.
"I think [the goal] is two degrees out of reach," said Yvo de Boer, former executive secretary of the Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC, the acronym in English) during the conference, "Planet under pressure" (planet under pressure, in the English translation), which takes place in England.
The goal of limiting the rise in global temperatures by two degrees Celsius was established by a core group of countries in the final hours of the turbulent Conference in Copenhagen in December 2009 and was formalized at a summit in Cancun, a year later. The 195 shares of the Framework Convention have committed to the goal.
But a growing number of scientists warning that the goal is fading away without making a radical cuts in emissions of greenhouse gases responsible for climate change. Some consider that the goal is a dangerous political illusion, since the Earth is headed for a temperature rise of 3 º C or more.
Meta Lost - "The goal of two degrees is lost, but not mean we should forget it," said de Boer. "It's a very significant goal, it is not a simple subject that has been drawn from thin air, has to do with trying to limit the amount of impact," he added.
"We must not forget that, in the sense that it is ignoring the fact that it went through the trouble of formulating a goal that is not achieved due to lack of political action," he continued.
"Consequently, the process should be dealing with as close as possible to achieve the 2 ° C and not say 'start all over again and formulate a new goal', forgetting that went through it recently," he said.
Copenhagen was a threshold in global discussions on climate. Their frustration, along with the financial and fiscal crisis that hit in full Western countries, many governments did mark time and to limit its plans of action against carbon emissions.
New agreement - Meanwhile, the high price of oil and gas led the major emerging to burn more coal, the dirtiest of fossil fuels, increasing atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2).
Last year, during the UN Conference on Climate Change (COP 17) in Durban, South Africa, the countries agreed to establish a new climate agreement in 2015 with entry into force in 2020, putting both rich and poor countries first legal restrictions in common.
De Boer said he hoped the fifth report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) may encourage a return to 'deadline' of 2015.
"Fortunately, we have another major IPCC report in 2014 and then, when governments meet in 2015 to negotiate something meaningful, science information available for this political process," he said.
Source: Environment Brazil
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