subject: Lower My Emission Now - Environmental Current Events [print this page] The environment is continuously changing together with both positive and negative issues revolving around its delicate aspects such as air, water, and land. There are certain breakthroughs in science that contributes to the welfare of the environment and some are governmental actions for alarming issues of pollution thus giving rise to environmental current events. Current events that relate to emission are the alarming increase of the global warming phenomenon. Global warming is due to the increase of greenhouse gases concentrations, which excessively heats the Earth's surface to some intolerable point.
For the past decade, there are conferences related to lowering the incidence of global warming, such as the UN Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in 1994 wherein it gave birth to the Kyoto Protocol, a treaty ratified by many countries aimed at stabilizing the emission of greenhouse gases thus decreasing global warming. This treaty has become an opportunity for developing countries wherein it involves Emission trading, Joint Implementation, and Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), and many other projects.
Another global warming conference took place in Istanbul, Turkey last July 2008 together with the 7th global conference of Environmental Justice and Global Citizenship in United Kingdom. Meanwhile, the conference on Climate Change Post-Kyoto was held last August 2008 in the United Kingdom.
In relation to the Climate Change Post-Kyoto, there were several events that took place in 2007, such as the Washington Declaration on February 16, 2007 which declared cap-and-trade principle applied to both industrialized and developing countries. The 33rd G8 Summit was held last June, aiming for a half global carbon dioxide emission by 2050.
The latest environmental current events took place in 2009 was the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, still with the aim of half carbon dioxide emission by 2050. The Kyoto Protocol is still being discussed and reviewed at some point in time still with the aim of alleviating the global warming phenomenon.
