The COP28 Conference of the Parties is a crucial opportunity to get on the right track and accelerate action to address the climate crisis. Taking into account global temperature records and the extreme transient phenomena affecting the planet’s population.
This event marks the culmination of a process known as the Global Stocktake, which is an assessment of progress made to date in achieving key provisions of the Global Stocktake Paris Agreement.
In this sense, the delegations of the COP28 You are faced with two options:
- Just note the lack of progress, optimize some actions taken so far and postpone the most necessary decisions.
- Choose to ensure that all inhabitants of the planet can adapt to climate change, adequately finance the associated transition and choose to commit to a new energy system.
COP28, Impact of drought on agricultural performance
During COP28 the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) presented the latest data related to the drought in a report.
This suggests an unprecedented emergency on a global scale, with the massive impacts of human-caused droughts just beginning to manifest.
The global portrait of the dryness highlights the urgency of this crisis and the need to increase resilience worldwide. Therefore, a profound change is needed to counteract droughts, which are becoming increasingly frequent and negatively impacting agricultural performance.
The organization emphasizes that the watershed del Plata in Brazil and Argentina has not experienced a drought as severe as 2022 in 78 years. This situation has reduced agricultural yields and impacted global crop markets.
In this sense, a decline of 44% is expected Soybean production in Argentina in 2023 compared to the last five years.
This represents the lowest harvest since 1988 and 1989, which could result in an estimated 3% decline in the country’s GDP this year.
The global portrait of the dryness highlights the urgency of this crisis and the need to increase resilience worldwide. Photo: Freepik
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Reducing emissions, central theme of COP28
The World Meteorological Organization’s decadal report on the state of the climate, launched in Dubai, shows that more countries experienced record temperatures between 2011 and 2020 than in any other decade.
The UN agency also warns that climate disruption undermines development Sustainable developmentwith dire consequences for:
- global food security
- shift
- Migrations
Since 1990, each decade has been warmer than the last, and there are no immediate signs that this trend is reversing. The race to save melting glaciers and ice sheets is being lost.
Therefore, reducing greenhouse gas emissions is our planet’s highest and absolute priority to prevent climate change from spiraling out of control.
The aim of COP28 is to reach an agreement to triple global renewable energy capacity. Photo: Freepik
The commitment of the refrigeration industry
More than 60 countries committed to reductions in Dubai the climate impacts of coolingafter presenting a report that sets out a path to reducing emissions in this sector.
The document presented by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) at COP28 finds that more than a billion people are at high risk of extreme heat due to a lack of access to cooling, the vast majority of them in Africa and Asia.
Refrigeration relieves pressure on the population and is also essential for other critical areas such as global food security and vaccine supply.
Likewise, conventional cooling, such as air conditioning, is responsible for more than 7% of global greenhouse gas emissions.
If not managed properly, the energy required for space cooling will triple by 2050, along with the associated emissions.
Finally, the WMO confirmed in a report that the last decade was the warmest on record, a 30-year trend driven by: Greenhouse gas emissions come from human activities.