The statistics and life expectancies that the different studies related to global warming and climate change present to us every day for the planet are increasingly discouraging. However, efforts by different countries to counter them are already underway; the main objective since 2008 is to reduce the production of greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide (CO2), methane gas (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O), in addition to three fluorinated industrial gases: hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), perfluorocarbons (PFCs) and sulphur hexafluoride (SF6). The idea is to reduce the emission of these polluting gases by at least 5% between 2008 and 2012, as agreed by the countries that signed the Kyoto Protocol, which entered into force in 2005 after Russia ratified its participation; however, the United States signed the agreement but did not ratify it.
However, during the United Nations Climate Change Conference held in Indonesia at the end of last year, which brought together representatives of more than 190 nations, the strong pressures made by developing countries made the United States give in and join the efforts of these countries in the fight against the The result was a new document on a future pact against global warming in 2009.
According to Germán Poveda, Master in water resources use at the National University of Colombia, in about 30 years global warming will be much more intense, in countries such as Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay.
