Climate Change and Global Efforts: The Road ahead

Abstract

Climate change is a natural phenomenon. The earth that we live in today was framed due to these phenomena. Yet climate change has become a global threat today. The reason for this drastic change in temperature now is no more natural but it is manmade. Understanding the long term effects in 1992 the International community1 responded to the threat of global climate change by adopting the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro. UNFCCC established the first (non-legally binding) guidelines for energy policy. Although much has been spoken about the effects of climate change on human beings and other creations on earth yet not much has been done practically. The paper looks into the policies on paper and how far the same has been effectively applied and implemented at various levels. The paper emphasis the efforts of United Nations along with its specialized agencies United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and initiative taken up by regional agencies like European Union in curbing the green house gases which is one of the causes of climate change.The paper concludes by bringing in comparision between the policies framed to curb the effects of climate change and the shortcomings in its implementation