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Cameron demands new global temp target

Nasim || risingbd.com

Published: 10:47, 1 December 2015   Update: 15:18, 26 July 2020
Cameron demands new global temp target

Risingbd Desk: David Cameron has called for world leaders to agree a deal on cutting greenhouse gas emissions and limiting the global temperature rise this century to 2C.

 

At a UN summit in Paris, the Prime Minister said delegates owed it to younger generations to make the figure legally binding in an attempt to tackle climate change.

 

The threshold is seen as the safe limit, beyond which the climate becomes dangerously unstable. Before the conference, countries made pledges on greenhouse gas cuts that would cap warming at 2.7C.

 

Cameron pointed out sea levels were rising, crops were failing, deserts were expanding and 97% of scientists said climate change was manmade, urgent and must be addressed.

 

And he said 75 countries, including the UK, already had legally binding climate change legislation and they were "thriving, not suffering".

 

Cameron wants a review every five years to see how the world is doing, and to help the poorest countries with finance and also make sure they get the technology that the richest nations have.

 

He is among more than 150 leaders attending the first day of the global summit.

 

Negotiators will spend the next fortnight trying to thrash out a deal to prevent temperatures rising by more than 2C above pre-industrial levels.

 

The EU has pledged to reduce greenhouse gases by at least 40% by 2030, while the world`s biggest emitter, China, has vowed that its emissions will peak by 2030.

 

Source: agencies

 

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