today marks the start Of the UN’s major climate change conference held in Madrid, spain. During the two-week, intense negotiations will take place. We have been to major international climate meetings in almost three decades. How do they lead to results? How is continuing its efforts to respond to this challenge?
Allow me here to look back and describe what happened in relation to three key factors: the emissions, the technical solutions and the political situation.
1 , Emissions have increased atmospheric carbon dioxide levels are increasing at a record pace. , Since the climate change summit in 1992, global emissions of carbon dioxide have increased by nearly 60%. It is, to put it mildly, not on facts. Emissions will continue to increase. The concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere are now increasing faster than it has ever been observed.
carbon dioxide Emissions per person are the highest in the richest countries. The united states emits about 8 times more per person than they do in India. It is important to keep in mind. However, the main reason, however, that the emissions have increased during this period due to a large-scale economic development in many countries of the global south, especially in Asia. The emissions are in the global south, countries of Africa, Asia and Latin america, taken as a whole, has increased by 170 per cent since 1992.
It must also be, to some extent, compensate the losers of the transition – otherwise, the political opposition to be too much. The reactions to the rise in fuel prices in France, for example, gives clear testimony to this.
at the same time, emissions of the classical in-the-world-remained largely stable. This means that, in principle, all of the increase in global carbon emissions that have taken place in the global south. Many of the countries of the south drop out as much, per person, which is typical of the country. The world is about to change.
this trend has in many ways been a very positive one. Hundreds of millions have been lifted out of poverty and given better access to food, electricity, medicine, and education. It is, of course, very desirable. At the same time, it has led to an increase in the emission of carbon dioxide, which is a problem from a climate point of view. This shows the complexity of this problem is to solve from a global point of view.
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the Use of renewable energy sources is growing rapidly. , The other one can say for sure is that the use of renewable energy sources is growing rapidly in many countries. Of particular importance, Germany has been, however, in recent years, for example, the united states, China, russia and the united kingdom. Sweden has also been very successful when it comes to bio-energy and wind.
the Cost of solar panels has also decreased at a rate that exceeded most people’s expectations. The rapid development has also led to a lot of fascinating results.
IN the EUROPEAN union as a whole, electricity generation from coal has decreased by 33% in 2005, primarily as a result of a rapid expansion of solar and wind power. The more electricity is generated from renewable energy other than coal.
In the united kingdom, there has been a little faster. The production of electricity from coal has declined by as much as 90% since 2005! The cause-effect relationships are complex and depend on a number of factors, but for solar and wind power has been broadly replaced half of the coal power. Carbon dioxide emissions from the nation as a whole has fallen by 32% over the same period of time.
on the other side of the Atlantic, we find the state of Texas, where wind power now accounts for about 18 per cent of total electricity production. In California, the world’s fifth-largest economy in the world, if it were a country, are the solar cells of 20% of the electricity produced.
at the same time, it must be borne in mind that it’s a long way to go. The use of fossil fuels continue to dominate world energy systems and emissions of carbon dioxide are increasing in the world. However, the technical, the sun and the vindrevolution, as we are seeing today is likely to be the most positive when it comes to the issue of climate over the past 25 years.
3. It is encouraging to see that a new climate movement is emerging. , in Order to solve the problem of climate change, we need to have a courageous and perceptive politician who wants to introduce an incentive to reduce their emissions. However, we are also in need of wise, a citizen who gives his support to the politician who is driving this policy. Otherwise, it will bortröstade in the next election.
It is, therefore, gratifying to be in a new climate movement is emerging in many parts of the world. This is a very positive sign. At the same time, the united states will be divided, and the country has never really wanted to submit itself to an international agreement on climate change. Primarily the opposition has come from Republicans. It is very unfortunate that the issue has become so polarized. In the united states, the world’s superpower in the fields of science, economics, finance, and technology does not take the matter seriously, put a dead hand on the process.
It is also important to pay attention to the role of China. When the climate negotiations started, and released in China half as much as the united states. Here are the 80 percent and, thus, is by far the world’s largest utsläppsland. The Per-person places in China now at the same level as the EUROPEAN union. The country can no longer hide behind the large, u is the group of developed countries (G-77), without the need to take a significant step forward, in order to contribute to the solution of the problem.
One of the biggest issues in the climate change debate is the question of what we (in conjunction with the EUROPEAN union can do in order to get to China, the united states and other major countries on board. Sweden, for example, only slightly more than one per cent of the world’s emissions.
I think the most important thing we can do is to develop the solutions that other countries find attractive when it comes to the choice of technology, tools, and ways of life. To reduce emissions in a cost-effective manner – through the use of economic instruments such as a carbon tax-or, as we now have in the EUROPEAN union, an emissions trading scheme. However, when such measures are put in place, then it must also be, to some extent, compensate the losers of the transition – otherwise, the political opposition to be too much. The reactions to the rise in fuel prices in France, for example, gives clear testimony to this. Through the introduction of climate policy instruments, with a fördelningsmässigt a reasonable profile can show the way, in the future of the landscape.
It is applicable to a variety of technical options are evolving and becoming more affordable. It’s about the continued investment in solar and wind, as well as methods of storing and deploying electricity. There is also a question about how to work within the transport sector such as electric cars and perhaps hydrogen as well as the various technologies for carbon dioxide capture from fossil fuels and bio-fuels as a way to achieve negative emissions.
There is a positive momentum that can make a difference. Once the politicians see the problem you can solve without too great a sacrifice, will also have the courage to implement more powerful policy tools. The citizens will be all the more willing to support such measures. In this way, we might be able to see more decisive action in the not-too-distant future. And if we do that in the west, it will have more credibility when we argue for a low-carbon, as in the rest of the world.
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