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The world would agree at last on the climate? Countries negotiating in Lima, under the aegis of the United Nations, a multilateral agreement in 2015 to limit global warming, signed Sunday an agreement on their future commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, announced the Peruvian Environment Minister Manuel Pulgar-Vidal. The commitments should enable an overall reduction in emissions of 40 to 70% by 2050.
Protracted negotiations . A draft text that will serve as a basic document to prior negotiations at the Paris summit on climate late 2015, was adopted after two weeks of intense talks, he said. The UN climate conference, which should have ended Friday, was extended for more than 30 hours because of a split between North and South
A drop in CO2 of 40 to 70% . Reaching agreement on the format of the commitments or national contributions that countries take power in 2015 to reduce emissions was one of the objectives of the meeting in Lima. The format of contributions concerns in particular the reference year, the commitment period, the action plan, the sectors concerned, the methodology.
The commitments should enable an overall reduction in emissions of 40 to 70% by 2050: an absolute necessity to achieve limited to 2 ° C rise in global temperature. The UN Convention on Climate Secretariat will prepare for the 1st November 2015 a synthesis of all the contributions to ensure that they will meet the target of 2 ° C.
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The Rich countries must lead by example . The final text adopted in Lima calmed emerging countries, including China and India. The first sketches of the previous agreement imposed on their economies too heavy a burden for their growing economy compared with countries already “rich”. “We got what we wanted,” said the Indian Minister of Environment, Prakash Javedekar, pleased that the text preserves the idea that rich countries should take the lead in reducing greenhouse gas Greenhouse. The agreement reached at the end of the two weeks of negotiations Lima said indeed clear that rich countries will provide financial support to developing countries.
Poor? But even so, the UN climate change secretariat said the combined commitments of all countries, to the Paris conference, will not suffice to achieve the stated objective, namely limiting warming to 2 degrees Celsius above the average temperature of the pre-industrial era. “It is a good document to prepare Paris”, however, assured the European Commissioner for Energy and Climate, Miguel Arias Canete.
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