Dear Readers,
According to data published by UNFCCC during the informal meeting in Bonn on 10-14th of August the current reduction targets related to greenhouse gases emissions disclosed so far by several industrialized countries by 2020 are amounting to 15-21% below the 1990 levels. This data come from national GHG emission reduction plans presented amongst others by Russia, Japan, Canada and EU Member States, but are not including United States.
The submitted goals are definitely well below the recommendation of e.g. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – IPCC) which suggested the need of reduction by rich countries from 25% do 40% below the 1990’s levels till 2020 to prevent the negative aspects of climate changes like floods or droughts.
The UNFCCC data show that total emissions from 39 industrialized countries, that were officially or preliminary published are oscillating between 9,86 billions tones CO2e and 11,71 billions tones CO2e in 2020. In 1990 the level of emissions from this countries was 12,53 billions tones CO2e.
This results were distributed among the participants of informal UNFCCC meeting in Bonn in August.
Regards,
Anthony
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