Measures taken against global warming by countries around the world.

Measures taken against global warming by countries around the world

First, it is important to understand the definition of the global warming; it is the increase in the average temperature of Earth's near-surface air and oceans since the mid-20th century and its projected continuation. According to a report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change global surface temperature increased 0,74 ± 0,18 °C between the start and the end of the 20th century. This problem caused that many countries working with the mission of eradicated things that cause this issue, but the problems is that we do not have a good strategy in the world too work join to eliminated.

The global scientific community agrees that most of the observed temperature increase was caused by escalating concentrations of greenhouse gases, which results from human activity such as fossil fuel burning and deforestation. Addressing this problem, countries like Costa Rica designed a plan with many proposals; for example, achieve the goal of being the first country neutral in carbon dioxide emissions by 2021. The members of the European Union proposed to reduce their polluting emissions by 20% by 2020 and have offered to increase this percentage to 30% if others make "comparable efforts." Japan and Russia, have a plan to reduce theirs by 25% until 2020, also in relation to 1990.

All these new alternatives to solve this problem are not enough considering that global warming has become perhaps the most complicated issue facing world leaders. On one hand, warnings from the scientific community are becoming louder, as an increase of dangers from the ongoing buildup of human. On the other hand, technological, economic and political aspects have to be resolved in order to achieve by a coordinated effort the emissions reduction worldwide.

In conclusion, all people or almost all know about this problem, but many decided to do nothing to solve it, but I think it is time to understand that if we do not do something immediately we can destroy the possibility of a future for our children. Additionally, it is time for countries to really establish clear proposals to really end up with global warming and not by simple or light alternatives that really don’t solve the problem.


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