Growing movement for fair share climate commitments Tue 11th May 2021 | 11:10 AM
Paris, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 11th May, 2021 ) :When US President Joe Biden pledged last month to cut his country s carbon emissions in half by 2030, Japan and Canada quickly followed suit. But many green groups and scientists say that this is still not good enough.
Biden s initiative may have won praise from political allies, but these campaigners want to see a different calculus rooted in history and ethics.
To keep the worldfrom tilting into catastrophic warming, they argue, developed nations that got rich burning fossil fuels must face their historic responsibility for the climate crisis and pay for it, too.
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The Paris Agreement, which celebrated its fifth birthday on December 12, is among the most remarkable diplomatic achievements in world history, representing decades of work to arrive at a common framework for capping global temperature rise at “well below” 2 degrees Celsius. It’s also basically toothless as is the body in which it was brokered: the United National Framework Convention on Climate Change, or UNFCCC.
President-elect Joe Biden has promised to undo Trump’s withdrawal and re-enter the Paris Agreement, rallying the world in the name of climate action. “We have to raise the ambition of every nation in the world in order to get this job done,” Biden’s new climate czar John Kerry told NPR last week. He noted the need for “humility” from the U.S. on the world stage and for the country to do its part at home. Yet Kerry still seems to have a fairly standard American answer to the problem of how to enforce global climate rules among the world’s governments: Te
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