Ifølge en ny rapport, lavet på vegne af Oxfam, vil udviklingslande frem mod 2020 reducere deres CO2-udslip med mere end de udviklede lande. Oxfam vurderer, at over 60 procent af reduktionen i CO2-udledning vil ske i udviklingslande.
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From Monday delegates from 195 countries are gathering in Bonn, Germany to resume negotiations on a global deal to tackle climate change. At last December’s climate conference in Cancun, countries recorded their pledges to cut emissions of greenhouse gases, but making comparisons between them has proved difficult because every country calculates and records their pledges in different ways.
The new analysis by the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), commissioned as part of Oxfam’s new global GROW campaign, compares four of the most widely respected studies of these pledges. All the studies show that developing countries have pledged to make bigger cuts in their greenhouse gas emissions than industrialized countries, compared to a business as usual scenario.
Tim Gore, Oxfam’s climate change policy advisor said: “All countries need to do their fair share to tackle climate change. Yet rich industrialized countries which are most responsible for the climate crisis are not pulling their weight.
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New figures from the forthcoming SEI overview of the pledges show that:
•China’s total emissions reductions could be nearly double those of the US by 2020
•The emissions reductions of developing countries could be three times greater than those of the EU by 2020.
•The emission reductions of China, India, South Africa and Brazil – the BASIC countries – could be slightly greater than the combined efforts of the 7 biggest developed countries – the US, Europe, Japan, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Russia by 2020.
Oxfam’s analysis also shows that the total emissions cuts pledged by all countries are not sufficient to prevent global temperatures rising above the 2 degrees target agreed by governments in Cancun. Global temperature increases of more than 1.5 degrees will have catastrophic consequences for societies across the globe.
Læs hele rapporten – “Growing a Better Future” – på: www.oxfam.org
