Agreements Climate and Global Warming

With the approaching deadline for compliance with the Kyoto Protocol , which expires in 2012 , tensions between the " big " nations begin to grow further . According to this document , the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions would be 8 % for the European Union countries , 7 % to the United States and 6 % for Japan Just to say no , result was obtained .

However , the maximization of environmental problems is notorious , and in this context the international agreements are extremely important in the search for effective solutions .

This will be held between 7 and December 18, the Summit on Climate Change in Copenhagen , capital of Denmark . The Danish Prime Minister , Lars Lokke Rasmussen , invited , through a formal letter , 191 member countries of the United Nations ( UN) including Denmark , to attend the summit .

Until December 2 , we confirmed the presence of 98 heads of state and government , including : Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva , the president of the United States , Barack Obama , the Chinese prime minister , Wen Jiabao , and German Chancellor Angela Merkel .

The Chinese Prime Minister , Wen Jiabao , has made explicit its position , stating that China will not reduce its production to reduce the emission of gases that cause the greenhouse effect . Barack Obama , meanwhile , has found great resistance in the U.S. Congress to approve legislation that would reduce greenhouse gas emissions . Recalling that China and the United States are the largest emitters of greenhouse gases on the planet .

What is expected from the summit on climate change are proposed with concrete and immediate results , because the Earth can no longer wait for the economic development of countries .

Denmark , a country that will host the UN Conference on climate change in December , suggested that during the meeting establish a new date for the greenhouse gas emissions are reduced and, therefore , reduce the environmental impact the planet faces today.

According to the Minister of Mines and Energy Danish , Connie Hedegaard , during the Copenhagen conference , should be set a deadline so that , finally, a complete text of the agreement is signed by the signatory countries . With the progressive increase of global warming , the situation of the planet is only getting worse .

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Each year , the polar ice caps melt even more . Anyone who watched The Day After Tomorrow or 2012 and thought that was an illusion too , can begin to rethink their ecological footprint , because of the way the world goes , mankind will have no end. It is true that Roland Emmerich (also director of the movie Independence Day ) likes a good old apocalypse.

But is that the planet is no longer condemned to a late style ? Climate change begin to be palpable and recent discoveries of science only come to confirm that it was apocalyptic global warming has generated . To get an idea , only in the late summer of last year , more than 1 million square miles of water thawed at the North Pole - this area is about one -fifth of the Amazon rainforest . It is a fact that all these changes have already been provided , but not believed could happen so fast .

Last year , newspapers around the world announced the results of studies that 2500 climate experts made about global warming . The result was consensus among all , the temperature of the globe should rise by between 1.1 C and 2.9 C by the year 2010.

The worst is that there's ways around warming in the world . To get an idea , even if by a miracle the carbon dioxide and other gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect would no longer be released into the atmosphere , global temperatures would still rise. And the disasters caused by heating are real !

Remember Hurricane Katrina , which hit the southeast coast of the United States in 2005 ? Reminiscent of another hurricane named Rita , days later , devastated the Gulf of Mexico , causing losses billionaires ? Remember the drought in the Amazon River basin that plagued Brazil in the same year , revealing only a desert full of dead fish and abandoned boats ?