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Taking action on climate change. |
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Climate change is now recognized as one of the leading challenges of our time.
World leaders are speaking out strongly on climate change. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon calls climate change "the greatest challenge of our time. Nothing less than the future of our planet, and the well-being of all its people," he says, "hangs in the balance." French President Nicolas Sarkozy, declared in his election victory speech, "What is at stake is the fate of humanity as a whole." In the lead up to the June 2007 G8 summit in Heiligendamm, German Chancellor Angela Merkel called on the G8 countries "to be bold in moving forward with concrete climate protection goals," and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe proposed a "Cool Earth 50" initiative to cut global emissions to half their current level by 2050.
What is driving this cause to alarm? Former U.S. Vice President and Nobel Laureate Al Gore explained in an op-ed piece in The New York Times: "Without realizing the consequences of our actions, we have begun to put so much carbon dioxide into the thin shell of air surrounding our world that we have literally changed the heat balance between Earth and the Sun…. As a direct result, many scientists are now warning that we are moving closer to several 'tipping points' that could - within 10 years - make it impossible for us to avoid irretrievable damage to the planet's habitability for human civilization."
A call to action. The G8 leaders came together in their Heiligendamm Summit Declaration with a call to action: "We firmly agree that resolute and concerted international action is urgently needed in order to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions and increase energy security… We reaffirm, as G8 leaders, our responsibility to act."
In the December 2007 UN Climate Change Conference in Bali, representatives of over 180 countries came together to adopt the “Bali roadmap,” which charts the course toward a post-2012 international agreement on climate change. According to UNFCCC Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer, “Parties have recognized the urgency of action on climate change and have now provided the political response to what scientists have been telling us is needed.
carbon+ is taking action to mitigate the impact of climate change.
From its base in Ukraine - one of the world's leading countries as a source of projects to reduce greenhouse gas emissions - carbon+ is developing projects that generate carbon credits through emission reductions plus cash flow through cost savings or commercial revenue.
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