{"id":119905,"date":"2021-11-02T18:33:27","date_gmt":"2021-11-03T01:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=119905"},"modified":"2021-11-02T18:33:27","modified_gmt":"2021-11-03T01:33:27","slug":"cop-26-conference-started-this-planet-must-be-made-habitable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/11\/02\/cop-26-conference-started-this-planet-must-be-made-habitable\/","title":{"rendered":"COP-26 conference started: This planet must be made habitable"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hafizur Talukdar<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

The 26th World\nClimate Conference (COP-26) kicked off on Sunday in Glasgow, Scotland. About\n30,000 people, including leaders from around the world, climate experts and\narbitrators, are expected to attend. The participating countries are expected\nto present their plans to reduce carbon emissions by 2030. The countries that\nsigned the Paris Agreement in 2015 agreed to take measures to ensure that\nglobal warming does not rise above 2 degrees Celsius beyond the pre-industrial\nera. Under the agreement, in order to reduce carbon emissions to virtually zero\nby 2050, various countries will now have to reduce their carbon emissions at a\nmassive rate. Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is scheduled to address\nthe COP-26 summit. In this year’s conference, the Prime Minister of Bangladesh\nwill lead the CVF (Climate Vulnerable Forum), a forum of 46 nations besides\nBangladesh. Bangladesh is currently the President of CVF. All concerned,\nincluding the people of the CVF-affiliated countries, are particularly hopeful\nthat the CVF-COP-26 Leaders Dialogue will lead to crucial decisions aimed at\nmitigating, adapting and financing climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is the\n26th conference since the first UN-sponsored conference was held in 1995. When\nthe World Climate Conference is about to take place, many of the evils of\nclimate change are particularly visible to the world. Canada has recently\nexperienced the highest heatwave in history. The floods in Europe are also\nunprecedented. A record amount of rain has fallen in western Germany, causing\nfloods. The floods have inundated the Netherlands, Switzerland and Belgium.\nFires have increased in California in the United States, parts of North\nAmerica, Siberia, and southern Europe. 134 countries in the world are now\nfacing the threat of fire which is a new record. By 2020, about 20 percent of\nthe world’s land area will be affected by drought. All this has happened due to\nclimate change. Earth’s temperature is rising rapidly. The last 5 years have\nbeen the warmest compared to the last 150 years. Compared to 1901, the rate of\nsea level rise has tripled. If this situation continues, scientists estimate\nthat by the end of this century, sea level will rise by about two meters. As a\nresult, people living in the sea area will have to face massive floods. People\nwill be displaced. Now the demand is that all the countries that are\nresponsible for the creation of climate refugees should take their\nresponsibility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Excess carbon\nemissions are a major cause of climate change. This crisis started from the beginning\nof the industrial age. The more industrialized the countries, the more polluted\nthe environment. But the countries lagging behind in the industry are suffering\nthe most. The responsibility for dealing with this environmental catastrophe\nrests heavily on the rich countries. Sadly, rich countries are not yet sincere\nin keeping their promises. Scientists say the goal of the Paris Agreement on\nglobal warming must be achieved if the earth is to be kept in balance. In order\nto make this planet habitable, everyone must reach a consensus at the World\nClimate Conference and show responsibility and sincerity in implementing the\ndecision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hafizur Talukdar The 26th World Climate Conference (COP-26) kicked off on Sunday in Glasgow, Scotland. About 30,000 people, including leaders from around the world, climate experts and arbitrators, are expected to attend. The participating countries are expected to present their plans to reduce carbon emissions by 2030. The countries that signed the Paris Agreement in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hafizur-talukdar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}