PERSPECTIVE FROM INDIA CLIMATE CHANGE: A
Millennium Development Goals of poverty reduction, health and environmental sustainability. This also results in a negative impact on the goals of attaining food security, providing education and achieving gender equality. It is quite evident that climate change has the potential to undermine human development across the world, and may even lead to a reversal of current developmental progress. Given the current rate of GHG emissions, the world needs to take the required urgent steps now, or these changes could become irreversible.
In this emerging scenario, it is crucial for us to change our myopic view of progress, which till now, was in complete disregard of our natural environment. Climate change has introduced the additional element of nature and its role in achieving economic development. It is imperative to understand the true meaning of economic growth and the
factors that determine it, so that the focus can now be towards sustainable and long term development.
Any initiative to contain and combat the cumulative effects of global warming requires a combination of preventive and adaptive measures. The core strategies involve actions leading to mitigation of GHG emissions and adaptive measures to deal with the disruptive effects of climate change.
The development of clean and alternative energy sources as an alternative to fossil fuels, attaining optimum levels of energy efficiency in the industrial and domestic sectors with the help of newer technologies, promoting sustainable agriculture practices and the conservation of forests and natural resources are some of the main elements in facing the challenge of climate change. The United Nations Framework Convention on
Climate Change adopted at the Earth Summit in Rio in June 1992, marks the dawn of serious global efforts in this direction. It is a comprehensive framework for inter-
governmental efforts to tackle the challenges posed by climate change, with the objective ‘to achieve a stabilization of the green house gases concentration in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system.’
Subsequently, Conference of Parties held every year have attempted to define the role of nations in the fight against climate change. Over the past two decades, International negotiators have painstakingly endeavored to reach a broad agreement between the member countries on the procedural aspects of achieving the goals defined in the Convention. The focus has been on collective action in the key areas of mitigation and adaptation. These
“The disruptive effect of global warming is undermining their efforts
towards achieving Millennium Development Goals of poverty reduction, health and environmental sustainability. This also results in a negative impact on the goals of attaining food security, providing education and achieving gender equality.”
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