{"id":297235,"date":"2010-02-09T09:34:14","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T14:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greenrightnow.com\/?p=8883"},"modified":"2010-02-09T09:34:14","modified_gmt":"2010-02-09T14:34:14","slug":"55-countries-offer-emission-reduction-pledges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/297235","title":{"rendered":"55 countries offer emission reduction pledges"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Green Right Now Reports<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Image: UNFCCC<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Fifty-five countries that combine to produce 78 percent of all global greenhouse emissions from energy use have offered pledges to reduce that output by 2020, according to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change<\/a>. The group includes China and the United States.<\/p>\n

The national pledges were required under the Copenhagen Accord<\/a> forged at the climate change talks in Copenhagen in December. Pledges cover the period after the end of 2012 when the first phase of the Kyoto Protocol<\/a> emissions targets expires.<\/p>\n

\u201cGreater ambition is required to meet the scale of the challenge,\u201d UNFCCC Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer said. \u201cBut I see these pledges as clear signals of willingness to move negotiations towards a successful conclusion.”<\/p>\n

None of the countries went beyond the commitments made at or before the Copenhagen summit. The steepest emissions cut was pledged by Norway, which offered to cut greenhouse gases 30 to 40 percent below 1990 levels for the period beyond 2012 as long as major emitting parties agree on emissions reductions in line with the 2\u00b0Celsius (3.6\u00b0 Fahrenheit) target.<\/p>\n

To avert the most catastrophic effects of climate change, most scientists say it will be necessary to keep\u00a0global temperature rise to 2\u00b0Celsius above the pre-industrial temperature, or around 1.2\u00b0C (2.16\u00b0F) above today’s level. To keep within the 2\u00b0C ceiling, those scientists say global emissions of greenhouse gases will have to peak by 2020 at the latest, be cut by at least 50 percent of their 1990 levels by 2050, then continue to decline.<\/p>\n

Targets pledged under the Copenhagen Accord fall short of these levels, but cuts would reduce the emissions linked to climate change.<\/p>\n

Japan pledged the next steepest cut of 25 percent below 1990 levels, while Russia pledged a 15 to 25 cut depending on accounting of the potential of Russia’s forests to absorb the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide.<\/p>\n

The United States and Canada each pledged a 17 percent cut below 2005 levels.<\/p>\n

China pledged to lower its carbon dioxide emissions per unit of GDP by 40-45 percent by 2020 compared to the 2005 level, increase the share of non-fossil fuels in primary energy consumption to around 15 percent by 2020 and increase forest coverage by 40 million hectares and forest stock volume by 1.3 billion cubic meters by 2020 from the 2005 levels.<\/p>\n

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