Climate change is an ongoing global phenomenon that has and will bring about significant changes in the ways through which environmental systems, and subsequently the ways of life for human beings, function. As time goes on, changes in various environmental variables, both on a global and local scale -- such as sea levels, temperature rise, rainfall patterns, et cetera -- will result in significant changes to environmental and tandem human life and livelihood contexts. Loss of life, homestead, livelihoods, and ways of living has and will keep occurring due to the effects of climate change. That is why efforts must be undertaken on various levels of society, from international to national to local community levels, to change and adapt human-environmental systems to the various unique contextual impacts of climate change. To further the goal of safeguarding against climate change for significantly vulnerable countries such as those classified as “Least Developed (LDC)”, Guidelines for “National Adaptation Program of Actions (NAPA)” were implemented at the 7th conference of parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in 2001. This guideline, developed by the LDC expert group (LEG), provides technical guidance to least developed countries to assist them in identifying climate change effects, impacts, and vulnerabilities, and in designing activities and actions to address key climate change issues that require urgent and immediate intervention.
India’s economy will become carbon neutral by the year 2070, the country’s prime minster has announced at the COP26 climate crisis summit in Glasgow. The target date is two decades beyond what scientists say is needed to avert catastrophic climate impacts. India is the last of the world’s major carbon polluters to announce a net-zero target, with China saying it would reach that goal in 2060, and the United States and the European Union aiming for 2050.
China's carbon emissions are vast and growing, dwarfing those of other countries. Experts agree that without big reductions in China's emissions, the world cannot win the fight against climate change. In 2020, China's President Xi Jinping said his country would aim for its emissions to reach their highest point before 2030 and for carbon neutrality before 2060. His statement has now been confirmed as China's official position ahead of the COP26 global climate summit in Glasgow. But China has not said exactly how these goals will be achieved.
China's carbon emissions are vast and growing, dwarfing those of other countries. Experts agree that without big reductions in China's emissions, the world cannot win the fight against climate change. In 2020, China's President Xi Jinping said his country would aim for its emissions to reach their highest point before 2030 and for carbon neutrality before 2060. His statement has now been confirmed as China's official position ahead of the COP26 global climate summit in Glasgow. But China has not said exactly how these goals will be achieved.
A crucial U.N. conference heard calls on its first day for the world's major economies to keep their promises of financial help to address the climate crisis, while big polluters India and Brazil made new commitments to cut emissions. World leaders, environmental experts and activists all pleaded for decisive action to halt the global warming which threatens the future of the planet at the start of the two-week COP26 summit in the Scottish city of Glasgow on Monday. The task facing negotiators was made even more daunting by the failure of the Group of 20 major industrial nations to agree ambitious new commitments at the weekend.