Climate change unavoidable, climate summit told
Conference Hall (BMICH) yesterday, he said the world carbon dioxide level reached 450 parts per million (ppm) by March 2015.
The Paris Agreement was adopted by consensus on December 12, 2015 at the 21st Conference of the Parties (COP 21) of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Paris. “We were talking about keeping it below 350 ppm. Unless we have an immediate transition in the world economy, which is based on fossil fuel, we are not going to have these types of reductions in the immediate terms,” he said.
“President Maithripala Sirisena had committed to implement the obligations of Paris Agreement in full and the Cabinet has approved the ratifications of the Paris Agreement last week and it will be tabled in Parliament and debated on the same day and approved unanimously in Parliament,” the Minister in Charge of Science, Technology and Research Susil Premajayantha said. “If technology keeps on improving and transfer as agreed in the COP 21, the temperature increase may be more controlled and there would be a better chance of survival,” the Minister further said.
Experts have forecast that even with the Paris Agreement, the global temperature would rise by 3 to 4 degree Celsius by the end of the century, Director of the Centre for Environmental Justice Hemantha Withanage said.
“The climate change is unavoidable and without any measures taken the world temperature may rise eight to ten degrees,” he said. While addressing the first day of the conference of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change and Sri Lanka’s readiness held at the Bandaranaike Memorial International
Source : 08/09/2016 Daily Mirror
