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Science/Tech See other Science/Tech Articles Title: World has no choice but to decarbonize: U.N. climate chief BARCELONA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Responding to climate change in the next 15 years is the world's "mega development project", given the need to invest trillions of dollars in infrastructure, creating jobs and economic stability, the United Nations' top climate change official said on Tuesday. "It makes fundamental economic sense" for countries to push forward on tackling climate change because of the benefits it will bring in terms of food, water and energy, as well as employment," Christiana Figueres told a carbon market conference in Barcelona. This, together with the speed at which businesses are acting on climate change and efforts to put a price on carbon, mean "a decarbonized world is now irreversible, irrefutable," the head of the U.N. climate change secretariat told the conference. "We are going to do it, because frankly we don't have any other option," she said. Decarbonization refers to shifting from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources, and improving energy efficiency, in order to cut planet-warming emissions to a net zero. Rachel Kyte, the World Bank's special envoy for climate change, said to decarbonize economies, "we will need to begin with extraordinary ambition at the end of this year" in Paris where countries are due to agree a new global deal to tackle climate change. Experts say the national plans countries are now compiling for that deal are unlikely to add up to the reductions in greenhouse gas emissions needed to keep global warming to an internationally agreed limit of 2 degrees Celsius. MARKET MECHANISMS NEEDED Market mechanisms, such as carbon taxes and emissions trading schemes, would be key in mobilizing a global response on a big-enough scale, Kyte said. "Every country will need to manage an orderly transition to low-carbon growth and resilient development," she said, adding that carbon pricing would be one necessary element of that transition. On Tuesday, the World Bank said in a report that emission trading schemes were worth an estimated $34 billion on April 1, up from $32 billion in 2014, while the value of carbon taxes around the world amounted to about $14 billion. Countries introducing such initiatives include developing nations such as China, Mexico and South Africa. Putting a price on carbon would be the foundation for unlocking investment in low-carbon economies "with hope for jobs and competitiveness - not a picture of sacrifice and of loss and giving things up", Kyte said. The Paris agreement should send an "unequivocal signal" that markets will play a key role in tackling climate change and underscore the need to "get prices right", she said. That would enable the current bottom-up patchwork of carbon pricing initiatives in some 40 nations and over 20 cities, states and regions to grow even faster, she added. Carbon markets have struggled in recent years, with prices plummeting due to a lack of demand amid uncertainty over how the world planned to tackle climate change. The U.N.'s Figueres said constructing a new international framework to curb global warming was going to be more complex than earlier thought. "We are currently in an era of transition - a construction site if you will," she said. "By definition, transitions and construction sites are messy and that is a good thing, because everybody is trying to figure out how...they move forward." (Reporting by Megan Rowling; editing by Laurie Goering) Poster Comment: colemanf Total Ignorance on the part of Megan Rowling and this UN Executive----No life can exist in a "decarbonized world". Vegetation's only food is CO2 and no one can live without carbon rich food crops. Scientific studies show optimum plant growth at CO2 levels of 1200 ppm. Vegetation starves and stops growing when CO2 drops to 200 ppm. Present CO2 atmospheric levels of 350-400 ppm does not provide an adequate carbon supply to maximize food crop production to feed a hungry world population. This Obama and UN promoted Hoax will hurt food supply- just the opposite of what this UN FOOL says. Global Warming or Climate Change "control" is nothing more than unscientific propaganda to simply to increase the price of energy to the masses,. pass that money to big governments and those like Al Gore feeding off the poor who can ill afford higher electric, heat and fuel bills12-5 G George Economic Systems: The alarmists keep telling us their concern about global warming is all about man's stewardship of the environment. But we know that's not true. A United Nations official has now confirmed this. At a news conference last week in Brussels, Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of U.N.'s Framework Convention on Climate Change, admitted that the goal of environmental activists is not to save the world from ecological calamity but to destroy capitalism. "This is the first time in the history of mankind that we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally, within a defined period of time, to change the economic development model that has been reigning for at least 150 years, since the Industrial Revolution," she said. Referring to a new international treaty environmentalists hope will be adopted at the Paris climate change conference later this year, she added: "This is probably the most difficult task we have ever given ourselves, which is to intentionally transform the economic development model for the first time in human history." The only economic model in the last 150 years that has ever worked at all is capitalism. The evidence is prima facie: From a feudal order that lasted a thousand years, produced zero growth and kept workdays long and lifespans short, the countries that have embraced free-market capitalism have enjoyed a system in which output has increased 70-fold, work days have been halved and lifespans doubled. Figueres is perhaps the perfect person for the job of transforming "the economic development model" because she's really never seen it work. "If you look at Ms. Figueres' Wikipedia page," notes Cato economist Dan Mitchell: Making the world look at their right hand while they choke developed economies with their left. 40-----7 Tom I don't generally trust anything that the U.N. says. That said, America has done as much or more to reduce carbon emissions as any other nation on a percentage basis. The fact is, we are using less fossil fuel on average every year. This is based both on government requirements and market forces. My SUV gets 31 mpg, which is double what a comparable car would have gotten 10 or more years ago. Greater efficiency is coming every year. No need to beat ourselves up over this and no need for draconian measures that will hurt our economy and destroy jobs. 30-5 Dig Deeper A 2014 study published in the peer-reviewed journal Environmental Research Letters analyzed 11,944 abstracts from papers published in the peer-reviewed scientific literature between 1991 and 2011, identified by searching the ISI Web of Science citation index engine for the text strings "global climate change" or "global warming". The authors found that 3974 of the 11,944 abstracts expressed a position on anthropogenic global warming (man made), and that 97.1% (of those 3974) endorsed the consensus that humans are causing global warming. The authors found that of the 11,944 abstracts, 7930 took no position on it, and 40 expressed uncertainty about it. SO,,,,this is where that high number of 97.1% comes from. Another way to say this is: of 11,944 scientists, only 3,974 believe in Global Warming - about 33% of all scientist. 66% of the scientists (7930) either don't believe it or didn't want to choose sides and .3% (40) refuted Global Warming either in part or in whole.9-3 Rambler 7 hours ago 5 5 Man made global warming is an exaggerated tale whose impact (if it exists at all) is miniscule. Climate change has always been a fact but is dictated by sun activity and water vapor as it will always will be. Funny how government bureaucrats always call for more taxes to solve the worlds problems. Confiscation of wealth only assures poverty for increasing numbers of people while government bureaucrats become fat, happy, and ever more corrupt. We cannot control the climate...never have and never will. 5-5 N/A Take a good look at Christiana Figueres. Have you ever seen a more evil looking vile creature ? I mean not counting Hillary Clinton of course..136-29 Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest
#1. To: Tatarewicz (#0)
Sounds like just another round of "make those little people pay pay PAY for this!"
World has no choice but to de-politician-ize and de-Zionize! The world is overrun with lying, deceiving, cunning swine.
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