Rather than net zero carbon goal, definitive equitable cumulative emission targets can be the key to achieve Paris agreements’ temperature goals. Analyse (200 Words)
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IAS Parliament 3 years
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KEY POINTS
· According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Global surface temperature is now higher by 1.07 degree Celsius since the pre-industrial era.
· Carbon dioxide is the dominant source of warming. Aerosols contribute to reducing the impact of warming by other greenhouse gases, by almost a third.
· A major finding of the report is that air pollution reduction and steep climate change mitigation are not complementary goals but require independent efforts over the short and medium term.
· Reaching net zero was not the determining factor for the world to limit itself to a 1.5 degree Celsius , or 2 degree Celsius, or indeed any specific temperature increase.
· The report is clear that it is the cumulative emissions in reaching net zero that determine the temperature rise.
· It also noted that the developed countries had usurped far more than their fair share of the global carbon budget.
Need of the hour
· Focusing on definite cumulative emission targets keeping equity, immediate emission reductions by the developed countries with phase-out dates for all fossil fuels.
· Massive investment in new technologies and their deployment, and a serious push to the mobilisation of adequate climate finance.
