The report shows that if the issue of reducing global warming is given the seriousness that it deserves this would affect the world’s economy by 0.12 percent of the annual average growth by the year 2050. This is a risk that your organization should be more than willing to take in its effort to control global warming. Moreover there is enough evidence to show that mitigation actions can bore near-term benefits such as improved health conditions due to reduction of pollution of air.
One of the challenges toward the fight against global warming in both developed and developing countries is the lack of commitment by heads of state of these nations towards the fight against green house gases. Despite the tremendous research that has been conducted by scientific bodies such as the IPCC some world leaders still remain skeptic over the causes of global warming. Some argue that that the world has been going through normal shift in relation to temperature changes. It is even astonishing to note that even the former president of the U.S until recently questioned the issue of global warming.
It is in such light that your organization through the UNEP needs to echo the gravity of this matter to member nations in major international conferences such as the Bali conference. Moreover the IPCC report further states that global warming is more rampant in the developing countries. The reports indicate that those with poor economies are more vulnerable to effects of climatic changes. Your organization via the UNEP has greater mandate in helping to reduce global warming in third world countries through advocating for use of renewable sources of energy to curb the effect of green house gases.
In both scenarios the questions present quite a big dilemma to the UNEP office in trying to solve this issue of Global warming. It is apparently clear that the task force involved with solving the issue of global warming knows that the green house gases are able to trap heat and cause the famous green house effect which causes the rising of global temperatures. This is further worsened by human activities that in the recent past have been detrimental to the environment.
According to UN report on climatic change through its constituent body IPCC(International Panel on Climatic Change) burning of solid waste and fossil fuels are some of the major causes of green house gases. The report indicates that approximately 80 percent of carbon dioxide emission into o the atmosphere comes from factories, businesses and automobile heat. This has further been worsened by human activities which include deforestation, mining and industrial production
These report further highlights how global warming is affecting the normal aspect of life. For instance it has been recorded that birds are laying egg earlier and butterflies are moving to higher lands. This shows that global warming in the long run can affect our ability in the future of obtaining food. As a matter of fact increase in precipitation which is caused by global warming has been feared to have devastating effects on the environment.
Since the inauguration of the IPCC your organization through UNEP has been monitoring the issue of global warming and searching for the best solutions for solving the issue
But so far little or no achievements have been made. In fact IPCC projections on the rise in temperature by 2.5 to 10.4 degrees between 1991-2100 have been echoed by other researchers in the meteorological field. According to Kelly Reed a researcher at the Environmental organization Greenpeace, effects of global warming not only affect the global temperatures but also leads to increase in floods , heat waves ,drought and more so increase in infectious diseases
Although it is the work of worlds government to see to it they limit of greenhouse gas emissions, your organization still has the responsibility to see to it that global warming has been dealt with. For starters your organization should think of advocating for member countries to plant genetically engineered plants that will be able to efficiently recycle carbon dioxide released in air. This means that there will be less carbon dioxide gas in the atmosphere
Another option your organization can try out is that, since UN organization is an international body, it can call for the member countries to replenish the water bodies bordering these countries with algae. This alga will be able to absorb carbon dioxide in these water bodies which covers quite a significant fraction of the earth’s surface
Use of renewable sources of energy has been has been depicted as the most efficient way of challenging the issue of global warming. Although expensive, use of hydroelectric, solar energy and wind has been considered to reduce the amount green house gases in the atmosphere by far. Your organization can call for use of these renewable sources of energy and also offer solar panels to developing countries
Since your UNEP a constituent body of your organization was formed with aim of facilitating shift towards use of cleaner sources of energy and support towards sustainable development especially in developing countries, you can use this avenue as the Secretary General of the organization to urge the governments of the member countries to pass laws to reduce emissions of green houses gases by factories. You can also call upon beneficiaries countries benefiting from your organization to form treaties with other neighboring countries to bind limits on emissions of green house gases.
Additionally the report of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) can be really good ammunition to convince world leaders in drafting a global plan to act on the issue of global warming especially with the first approaching deadline of the Kyoto protocol which expires late 2012. I believe if you give it a try maybe something good might come out of it
References
Brown, Paul. Global Warming: It’s with Us Now: Six Dead As Storms Bring Chaos Throughout
The Country. The Guardian.London, , 2000.Print
Hodkinson . T Climate change, ecology, and systematic, Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge
University Press, 2011. Print
.Climate capitalism: global warming and the transformation of the global
economy Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press.2010.Print
Hodkinson . T Climate change, ecology, and systematic, Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge
University Press, 2011. Print
Pichs-Madruga R. , Sokona Y, Seyboth K, P. Matschoss, Kadner S, Zwickel T, (eds). IPCC:
IPCC Special Report on Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change
Mitigation. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New
York, NY, USA, 1075 pp. 2011.Print.
Stewart . W .Climate of uncetainity:A balanceD look at the global Warming and Renewable
Energy;Ocean Publishing; May 26, 2010. Print
Trevor . L .Climate Change: Observed impacts on Planet Earth; New york : Ocean
Publishing.Jul, 2009. Print.