It is known that climate change will be the greatest threat that humanity will have in the coming years and should be a topic of utmost importance in Peru due to its geopolitical and economic implications in the long term. It is necessary to make it a priority issue on the public, private, academic and also the media agenda.
In Peru we are noticing the various transformations that are taking place in nature, some slow and others abrupt of the consequences of this scourge that will have the following generations and that basically has been largely caused by industrialized countries, many of which they have refused to sign the Kyoto Protocol or accept the 2009 Copenhagen Declaration.
Climate change is called the modification of the climate that produces high or low temperatures, thus causing " global warming " and the " greenhouse effect ". All these changes, of course, have their natural causes, but they have also been the consequences of the excessive emission of gases by industrialized and emerging countries. There are those who call climate change "global warming". However, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change uses the term "climate change" only to refer to transformations produced by human causes.
This is why it is understood that a change in climate attributed directly or indirectly to human activity, alters the composition of the world atmosphere, to which it certainly adds the natural variability of climate.
In Peru and in many parts of the world, these issues are still seen journalistically. River overflows; excessive rains; permanent thaws; water and energy shortages; droughts and huaycos; sea level water rise; natural landscapes that have already disappeared; deforestation of forests by illegal logging; excessive emission of gases; polluted cities; Obsolete and dirty industries and mining. All these phenomena or facts only serve for journalistic coverage.
However, we forget that climate change is also global warming, rising temperatures and sea levels, the disappearance of glaciers, the greenhouse effect, changes in underwater currents, decreased sunspots, and increased rainfall over the northern hemisphere.
For this reason, it seems good to us that at the recent Annual Executive Conference (CADE) held in Urubamba, two of the topics discussed by businessmen were precisely water and energy. Also at the global level, the issue was discussed at the G-20 Summit, although, paradoxically, the member countries of this group are also nations that emit large CO2 emissions into space.
At the Copenhagen summit that took place from December 7 to 18 last year, nothing concrete was accomplished. The idea was to reach an agreement that would continue the Kyoto Protocol that expires in 2012. The fifteen most polluting countries in order of volume are China, the United States, India, Russia, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom, Australia, South Africa, Korea. from the South, Poland, Canada, Italy, Spain and Taiwan. China alone emits gases for 3,120,000,000 tons of CO2.
The reason why Copenhagen is not successful is that the G-20 is made up of the former G-7 (United States, Canada, Germany, France, Italy, United Kingdom, Japan), Russia, Saudi Arabia, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, South Korea, Mexico, South Africa, Turkey and the EU. The European commitment is to reduce emissions by 30% to achieve an international climate agreement.
