Paris: 2 degrees are the key to climate change

By Park Sae-jin Posted : December 2, 2015, 08:47 Updated : December 2, 2015, 08:47

[Courtesy of UN's climate change official site]



“Two degrees Celcius” is the key of all talks which revolves around in UN Climate Change Conference held in Paris. The Conference which started Monday, seeks to make a common goal among the world. To reduce the carbon emissions aimed to slow the global warming.

The global temperature has risen about one degree since industrial revolution caused by cutting down forests and burning fossil fuels which filled the earth’s atmosphere with carbon emissions. 2015 was the hottest year ever recorded.

Scientists around the globe emphasize that if more than two degrees of average global temperature is increased, its result will be catastrophic. Sea level will rise, much severe weather causing droughts and wildfires, plant and animal extinctions across the globe.

So the world faces its dire moment. With irregularities in weather conditions are spiking, delegates from over 190 countries attending the UN’s conference in Paris are seeking a way to create an legally binding agreement to limit carbon emissions below warming threshold.

But according to UN’s climate experts, even if efforts of countries including U.S. keep their pace, global temperature will easily surpass two degrees rising in next hundred years. So the world would have to work harder. Developing measures such as more fuel-efficient machines or machines which use alternate power sources such as sunlight, wind and other clean energy.


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