The United Nations climate change conference met and they were unable to achieve what they and hoped to gain. However there are agreements that seem to have been made in order for global emissions to drop.
There was this package that is called the Cancun Agreement was decided on at the conference. Basically what this does is it gives the nearly 200 countries another year to decide whether or not they want to extend the Kyoto Protocol which would require most wealthy nations to cut their own emissions as well as help developing countries. The more wealthy nations would help the developing countries become more adaptable to climate changes. The article also stated that the average temperature is supposed to raise about 4 degrees Celsius over the next half century.
This article overall is very relevant to the ENVA-050 class at Siena College in Loudonville, NY because we just finished learning about different methods that greenhouse gases can be emitted into the atmosphere as well as all of the possible dangers that can occur with it.
I believe that this is a good idea that they try and not only figure out ways to help developing countries adapt to different climate changes but to also regulate the emissions of greenhouse gases into our atmosphere. We need to make sure that we take the precautionary measures to help enable the world to live and stay as healthy as possible. This issue also came up within my term paper for the same class and its important to note that many places around the world need to become more aware of the global emissions and how serious of a problem it truly is. There will be some nay sayers that don't believe that our world is actually being harmed but currently I believe that we are. Brazil alone is producing massive amounts of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere due to deforestation alone. We need trees to help regulate CO2 emissions. We need to stop what is going wrong and fix it otherwise there will be no future for the Earth and there will be no history to be remembered due to the lack of life on a non-existent planet.
Article from the New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/12/science/earth/12climate.html?_r=1&ref=earth
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