The UN climate talks (COP24) in Katowice (Poland) have marked a before and after in our way of dealing with climate change. At the Katowice climate summit in 2018 there were times when it seemed unlikely that approval of the 1.5 ° C decrease in the report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a credible rule book of the Paris Agreement and a strong push towards new, more ambitious national emissions targets by 2020.
In the end, the COP24 summit can be seen as a relative success, but a sign that the world is determined to make progress on climate change under the Paris Agreement , signed on April 22, 2016 and whose entry into force: it had place on November 4, 2016 (174 countries and the European Union signed it).
How do countries plan to bridge the gap between their existing goals and what climate scientists are saying? All actions are necessary to prevent climate change. The countdown has begun.
And it is that the Earth’s climate has changed throughout history. In just the last 650,000 years, there have been no more and no less than seven cycles of glacial retreat, with the abrupt end of the last ice age approximately 7,000 years ago, ushering in the modern climate age and human civilization. Most of these climate changes are attributed to very small variations in Earth’s orbit that change the amount of solar energy our planet receives.
Earth-orbiting satellites and other technological advances have allowed scientists to see the big picture of climate on a global scale. This data set, collected over many years, reveals the signs of a changing climate.
The current warming trend is of particular importance as, due to human activity since the middle of the 20th century, it is advancing at an unprecedented rate.
Let’s learn the keys to climate change from this dictionary from A to Z.
