Climate horrors: Recommendations for Paris meet in December

-Dr. Abdul Ruff

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The top polluters of natural environment through persistent emissions continue to ignore the danger they have already caused to the climatic conditions to the detriment of climactic order.

US-NATO-Israel led terror wars have vitiated the climatic health by continuous attacks, resultant destructions and genocides. 

Submits have failed to make the right climate saver moves, though they have recognized the impending danger to climate and humanity. Governments are insincere and they play with the fate of survival of living beings on earth by crusher policies, they continue to define action as half hearted pledges that are never enforced from yet another round of climate talks. And without stronger action, emissions will continue to rise until at least 2030, putting the 2°C target out of reach. It doesn't have to be this way.

In its World Energy Outlook Special Report 2015: Energy and Climate Change, the Paris-based IEA agency states that current national commitments to cut greenhouse gases are still insufficient to keep the world below two degrees Celsius of warming above pre-industrial levels.

The challenge is stern, but a credible vision of the long-term decarburization of the sector is available to underpin shorter term commitments and the means to realize it can, ultimately, be collectively adopted.

International Energy Agency (IEA) has submitted an assessment of known and signaled national climate pledges for COP21 submitted ahead of this December's meeting where it is hoped that 196 countries will agree upon new global emissions reductions.

The IEA says transformation of the world's energy system must become a uniting vision if the 2°C climate goal is to be achieved and without "learning to live within its means," the world is set to miss a critical target. Generally accepted target, beyond which climate change is likely to become catastrophic and irreversible, was reaffirmed by G7 leaders in Bonn, Germany last week. Since the national emissions pledges aimed at meeting global climate goals have remained unimplemented the problem can never be mitigated.

Experts say the countries need to cut emissions more, and they need to cut them more immediately so that we do not face really dangerous climate change. Current plans and pledges to do more later on are not yet enough to do the job on climate. The World Wildlife Foundation director of global energy policy, Stephan Singer added: "We are particularly happy that the IEA’s key recommendations focus on what works—energy efficiency and renewables—rather than on vague ‘low carbon technologies.’ The latter often means problematic climate ‘solutions’ like nuclear, carbon capture and storage at scale, and gas." 

The IEA is confident that by adopting a five-pillared "Bridge Scenario" that employs existing policies and technologies, that early peak can be reached. This will in fact require a global peak in energy emissions by 2020, and a process to check where nations are on their goals every five years.

The IEA's following findings, as well as its focus on renewable energy, are in line with what environmental and climate justice groups have been warning for years. Increasing energy efficiency in the industry, buildings and transport sectors; progressively reducing the use of the least-efficient coal-fired power plants and banning their construction; increasing investment in renewable energy technologies in the power sector from $270 billion in 2014 to $400 billion in 2030; gradual phasing out of fossil-fuel subsidies to end-users by 2030; and reducing methane emissions in oil and gas production.

It is time to end the usual blame games at submits and begin implementing the emission reduction plans agreed upon by world leaders.