Global cooperation is essential to stop climate change
Assist. Prof. Dr. Özker Kocadal, lecturer in the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences of Cyprus International University said in order to raise public awareness on the issue of climate change around world, May 15th has been marked as the World Climate Change day.
Stating that such a day has been determined to draw the attention of the public to major climate changes such as global warming caused by human activity, Kocadal also noted that to solve climate change problems various international agreements have been signed.
Assist. Prof. Dr. Özker Kocadal said the first agreement was the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)signed in Rio in 1992 with the objective to achieve the stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous interference with the climate system.
Kocadal said the next step in trying to solve the climate change problem was the adoption of the Kyoto Protocol in 1997 that aimed to reduce the emission of gases that contribute to global warming and set legally binding targets for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in developed countries,
Dr. Kocadal emphasized that on the basis of the Doha Amendment (December 2012), the second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol aimed to last from 2013 to 2020, and said that the UN Framework Convention (2015) was signed in Paris, adding, “In Paris, the signatory states adopted the Global Climate Change Agreement in such a way as to gather all existing, binding and non-binding agreements in a single system.”
Stating that the aim of the Paris Agreement is to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions of developed and developing countries and to ensure that the temperature in the world's atmosphere does not increase by more than 2 degrees Celsius, Kocadal said the USA withdrew from the Paris Agreement during the presidency of Donald Trump, but returned to the agreement during the presidency of Joseph Biden.
Assist. Prof. Dr. Kocadal stated that global climate change is one of the most important problems of our time and that it is of vital significance for all states to cooperate to stop climate change.