Full Summary reader response Draft 1: "Five years since Paris Agreement, world must get ambitious on climate action"

In the recent news release, “Five years since Paris Agreement, world must get ambitious on climate action”, Sharma (2020) addressed the world’s efforts to combat climate change by holding a global Climate Ambition Summit to discuss strategies for carbon neutrality. During the summit, 45 nationally determined contributions (NDC) and 24 net-zero commitments have been announced by leaders worldwide to reduce the impacts of climate change. Sharma stated that the British government has withdrawn its monetary support for the fossil fuel energy sector overseas. Additionally, he mentioned the United Kingdom’s (UK) and Singapore’s government exchange on educating each other regarding grid decarbonisation. He claims that Singapore plays a vital role in supporting regional energy transitions, keen on imparting its knowledge for a sustainable planet. Thus, he believes that contribution is not an individual effort, and it is proven by our existing pandemic to work together and achieve success.

 

One example would be developing countries lacking the knowledge and resources to implement strategies to combat climate change as seen in many articles I have researched on, quoting from Javadinejad et al (2019) "Poor developing countries release 63% of the global greenhouse gas emissions"this is a huge percentage of the global greenhouse gases emission hence if developing countries gain knowledge and resources by other countries they can catch up with the current technologies and strategies to combat climate change which can reduce up to 23.3% of the current greenhouse gas emission. Javadinejad et al stated that research has shown that one of the common problems in developing countries is the lack of funding for their adaption plans so if the developing countries are able to acquire more monetary resource and knowledge through collaboration with developed countries, they will be able to effectively combat climate change.

 

In another article, the collaboration of the world to develop climate-friendly technology (CFT) is one of the main key notions to combat climate change stated Jiang (2017) During 2015 Paris climate summit 20 countries agreed to work together and share information on CFT research and development activities called Mission Innovation and thru these activities, the countries with more knowledge on low-carbon science technology can connect to other countries with lesser knowledge and share with them in order for them to catch up with each other. Furthermore, the countries can share with each other their grey areas of such technologies and improve it hence accelerating CFT in the market decreasing the emission of greenhouse gases reducing the impact on climate change.

 

One article that caught my eye was made by Burton (2016) Stating that collaboration is essential to fight against climate change as it helps expedite the solution to the problem of climate change as time is short on our hand and the collaboration of different level is able to greatly assist with the solution examples collaboration between the sector of business to collaboration between nations and organisations. The importance of collaboration can assist different organisations to reach their target outcomes by allowing funding, sharing knowledge and expertise, and facilitating partnerships in implementation, monitoring and evaluation. All these will help the world learn what’s making a positive impact and what’s not thus increasing the world’s ability to protect itself from climate change.

 

In conclusion, I believe that collaboration between the nations, organisations and people is essential to protect our world from climate change as we together collaborated to cause this problem and together we shall collaborate to solve it. Some countries may be lacking behind due to the lack of knowledge and fundings, with a little help from others that has already have the knowledge and resources they will be able to work towards a better future. Additionally, with crucial information share among the world, we can learn from each other’s mistake and build on each other’s successes improving the environmental sustainability scene.

 

 

 

 

Sharma, A. (2021, February 3). Commentary: Five years since Paris Agreement, world must get ambitious on climate action. CNA. 

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/commentary/un-cop26-climate-change-commitment-net-zero-clean-energy-uk-13798700. 


Javadinejad, Safieh & Dara, Rebwar & Jafary, Forough. (2019). Taking Urgent Actions to Combat Climate Change Impacts. 2. 1-13. 10.6084/m9.figshare.10315508. 


Jiang, J., Wang, W., Wang, C., & Liu, Y. (2017, January 10). Combating climate change calls for a global technological cooperation system built on the concept of ecological civilization. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10042857.2017.1286145. 


Martínez-Solimán, M. (2015, November 27). Cooperation and sharing can help combat climate change. UNDP. https://www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home/blog/2015/11/27/Cooperation-and-sharing-can-help-combat-climate-change.html.


Burton, D. (2016) Collaboration and partnerships for adaptation. CoastAdapt, National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility, Gold Coast.


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