Comments on: Key Issues for a Successful Copenhagen Climate Change Summit: The Role of Emerging Countries in Asia http://www.greenbusinesstimes.com/2009/08/31/key-issues-for-a-successful-copenhagen-climate-change-summit-the-role-of-emerging-countries-in-asia/ Environmental News, Green Resources and Sustainable Practices for Companies and Business Professionals in Singapore Wed, 28 Jul 2010 09:47:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Ramanathan Venkatraman http://www.greenbusinesstimes.com/2009/08/31/key-issues-for-a-successful-copenhagen-climate-change-summit-the-role-of-emerging-countries-in-asia/#comment-15828 Ramanathan Venkatraman Mon, 28 Sep 2009 14:04:47 +0000 http://www.greenbusinesstimes.com/?p=516#comment-15828 Climate change is happening faster than our calculations. If we need to stop the catastrophe, we need to take decisive actions. Developed nations should have a strategy to plan mid term emission reductions. If we want to achieve 80% reduction level by the mid third millennium, we need to achieve collective reduction of 25% by 2020. Developing countries would need US $ 150 billion a year to tackle climate change. A part share of this amount needs to be contributed by the developing countries. The biggest share is expected to come from Carbon market, for which we have to set up an ambitious global scheme. Public finance need to flow from developed to developing countries in the order of US $ 33 billion to US $ 75 billion per year by 2020. Half of this amount will be required to support adaptation action giving priority to the most vulnerable and poor developing countries. We need to put clearly on the table what they are ready to do to mitigate carbon emissions compared to business as usual as part of the international agreement. We need to put in place domestic measures to limit the growth of our carbon emissions. Developed countries need to meet their obligation to provide carbon finance as a pre-requisite to mitigate action by the developing world. We need to keep the emission trajectory that keeps global warming below 2 degrees Celsius. The study of these carbon compounds and their properties and reactions is organic chemistry. With hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, and a few other elements whose small amounts belie their important roles, carbon forms the compounds that make up all living things: proteins, carbohydrates, lipids, and nucleic acids. Biochemistry is the study of how those compounds are synthesized and broken down and how they associate with each other in living organisms. Organisms consume carbon and return it to the environment in the carbon cycle. Carbon dioxide, produced when carbon is burned and from biological processes, makes up about 0.03% of the air, and carbon occurs in Earth's crust as carbonate rocks and the hydrocarbons in coal, petroleum, and natural gas. The oceans contain large amounts of dissolved carbon dioxide and carbonates. [Nonmetallic chemical element, chemical symbol C, atomic number 6] However, it is the developed countries like USA and others who are responsible for 80% emission of carbon emissions, should understand that the if a sustinable envoironment need to be created, we need to work together. Economic wealth is something, world well being is another. The world of today belong to posterity. Climate change is happening faster than our calculations. If we need to stop the catastrophe, we need to take decisive actions. Developed nations should have a strategy to plan mid term emission reductions. If we want to achieve 80% reduction level by the mid third millennium, we need to achieve collective reduction of 25% by 2020. Developing countries would need US $ 150 billion a year to tackle climate change. A part share of this amount needs to be contributed by the developing countries. The biggest share is expected to come from Carbon market, for which we have to set up an ambitious global scheme. Public finance need to flow from developed to developing countries in the order of US $ 33 billion to US $ 75 billion per year by 2020. Half of this amount will be required to support adaptation action giving priority to the most vulnerable and poor developing countries. We need to put clearly on the table what they are ready to do to mitigate carbon emissions compared to business as usual as part of the international agreement. We need to put in place domestic measures to limit the growth of our carbon emissions. Developed countries need to meet their obligation to provide carbon finance as a pre-requisite to mitigate action by the developing world.

We need to keep the emission trajectory that keeps global warming below 2 degrees Celsius.

The study of these carbon compounds and their properties and reactions is organic chemistry. With hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, and a few other elements whose small amounts belie their important roles, carbon forms the compounds that make up all living things: proteins, carbohydrates, lipids, and nucleic acids. Biochemistry is the study of how those compounds are synthesized and broken down and how they associate with each other in living organisms. Organisms consume carbon and return it to the environment in the carbon cycle. Carbon dioxide, produced when carbon is burned and from biological processes, makes up about 0.03% of the air, and carbon occurs in Earth’s crust as carbonate rocks and the hydrocarbons in coal, petroleum, and natural gas. The oceans contain large amounts of dissolved carbon dioxide and carbonates. [Nonmetallic chemical element, chemical symbol C, atomic number 6]

However, it is the developed countries like USA and others who are responsible for 80% emission of carbon emissions, should understand that the if a sustinable envoironment need to be created, we need to work together. Economic wealth is something, world well being is another. The world of today belong to posterity.

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