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On November 4, 2016, the Paris Agreement on climate change entered into force, the result of the most complex, in-depth and most important international climate negotiation ever held.
This date will be remembered as the day when countries erected a barrier to the inevitable disasters of climate change, and as the day they began with determination to walk towards a sustainable future.
The UN climate change conference that opens next week in Marrakesh is a new beginning for the international community and it will be there, on November 15, where the first meeting of the governing body of the Paris Agreement will be held. the CMA.
In a short time, and in any case in the next 15 years, there must be unprecedented reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, as well as unprecedented efforts to build societies resilient to the increasing effects of climate change.
The World Meteorological Organization has confirmed that in 2016 a new record has been broken in the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas, which in 2015 already exceeded for the first time concentrations of 400 parts per million.
This means that the world is far from achieving the main objective of the Paris Agreement, which is to limit global warming to well below 2 degrees Celsius and as close as possible to 1.5 degrees, in order to avoid climate tipping points before which we will no longer have any control.
The Paris Agreement has transformed for the better our collective ability to bring about rapid change and has done so for these reasons:
- In Paris, governments formally agreed to lead climate action and presented a series of national plans to take immediate action, promising that they would never reduce the ambition of their targets. Now, governments have the responsibility and the means to bring about change faster through climate-friendly policies and incentives.
- In a short period of time, ideally no later than 2018, governments and Parties will finalize the regulation on the measurement, accounting and analysis of global climate actions. This will ensure the transparency that all actors need to accelerate climate action by ensuring that everyone is doing their best.
- In addition, governments agreed to strengthen technological and financial support to developing countries so that they can build their own sustainable futures from clean energy.
- Last but not least, non-state actors are showing increasing interest and are committing to reducing carbon emissions and supporting governments and Parties in their fight against the dangerous effects of climate change.
The UN estimates that sustainable development requires between $5 billion and $7 billion annually, and that much of that money should be used to finance the transition to a low-carbon and resilient global economy. To meet these investments, we must move beyond traditional methods of financing and opt for creative alternatives with a growing and coordinated participation of both the public and private sectors.
Source: United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
