The climate change summit this year, otherwise known as the Conference of Parties or COP21 that ended yesterday, was known to be a ground breaking conference with an enactment and commitment to put words into action immediately.
Almost 200 countries' leaders were present at the summit. After two weeks of discussions, key points were written in a deal that commits all countries to cut emissions into the year 2020.
These are the measures in the agreement:
• To peak greenhouse gas emissions as soon as possible and achieve a balance between sources and sinks of greenhouse gases in the second half of this century
• To keep global temperature increase "well below" 2C (3.6F) and to pursue efforts to limit it to 1.5C
• To review progress every five years
• $100 billion a year in climate finance for developing countries by 2020, with a commitment
to further finance in the future.
What can we do to help? We can begin or continue to develop healthy climate-friendly-habits to reduce emissions. We may also register for a newsletter to get more information or search ways on helping in our communities.to further finance in the future.
In the meantime, our hope is that all countries will abide by this new agreement to help our earth.
R. Aguilar
