by John Smith in Current Affairs
24 May 2019
Global View
Global temperatures are rising. Ice caps are melting. The past five years have been, collectively, the warmest years in modern records with 2018 having a temperature rise of 0.83 degrees Celsius compared to the 1951 to 1980 mean.
The Paris climate conference came as a unanimous call for action against what scientists are now calling a global crisis. Representatives from 196 countries met in December 2015 out of which 184 submitted Nationally determined contributions (NDCs) to reduce national greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to climate change.
Aiming to bring stakeholders and governments together to implement the Paris Agreement, Chile, which is to host the next UN Climate Change Conference COP25, appointed Gonzalo Muñoz—a business entrepreneur, social change-maker and the founder of TriCiclos—as Chile’s High-Level Climate Action Champion.
Are we all acting responsibly as global citizens living on the same planet?
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