Agreement on climate is not merely increasing temperatures

Yesterday - 12.10 by Alister Doyle Continue reading this Story climate agreement among world leaders, including President of the United States Barack Obama, leads many decisions in 2010 and probably not possible to attain the objectives on limiting global warming . Obama has talked about the "beginning of a new era of international action" but many other leaders have said the agreement was "flawed", "inadequate" or that at most would be a "modest success" if today all the 193 countries they had adopted today. The problems faced by China and the U.S. - the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases - are still on the road to an agreement more stringent for the first global pact aimed at fighting climate change since the UN Kyoto Protocol 1997. With a breakthrough, the agreement involves help from 100 billion dollars for developing countries in 2020 and promotes the use of forests to absorb carbon dioxide. European leaders have been reluctant after that Obama has announced an agreement with China, India, South Africa and Brazil. One downside however in the fact that the agreement is not legally binding, a key demand of many developing countries. The text suggests instead a deadline in 2010 to transform the agreement into a legal basis. The agreement aims to limit the temperature increase "under" 2 degrees Celsius compared to preindustrial levels, but does not establish specific measures to monitor compliance with the limit. "clearly not the height of public opinion, the world expects," says Alden Meyer of the Union of Concerned Scientists, the Union of concerned scientists. "Obviously not enough to keep temperatures below 2 degrees." One UN study leaked in recent days indicates that the current commitments of all nations would lead to a warming of 3 degrees, as well as what many countries consider a threshold of "dangerous for drought, floods, sand storms and rising sea levels. The reference, contained in earlier drafts, to ensure, as obi ective halving global emissions by 2050 below 1990 levels, for example, has disappeared. China and India insist that rich nations must first establish more stringent targets for their emissions of greenhouse gases. And the developed nations have failed to find an average gas reductions by 2020, many scientists say cuts would take 25-40% below 1990 levels by 2020 to avoid the most severe effects of climate change. Instead, all countries must present plans to combat global warming by the end of January 2010 at the UN Climate Change Secretariat. The pact outlines the commitments that have been taken by major economies to cut emissions: the deadline has spurred nations including China, U.S., Russia and India to promising target. No country is engaged in more severe reductions during the two weeks of the conference in Copenhagen as part of a global economic shift from fossil fuels to renewable energies like solar energy and wind energy. The agreement proposes the deadline of end 2010 for new instruments "legally binding". Jake Schmidt, of the Natural Resources Defense Council, said the talks have been complicated by China's decision to affirm a new and more powerful role itself in the world. "Part of the problem that China feels just like a new and more powerful role." Obama has claimed the pact as internal problems. Its goal of reducing U.S. emissions by 4% compared to 1990 levels by 2020 is a stalemate in the U.S. Senate. And the agreement is not clear at several points. He says that developed nations should provide aid to 30 billion dollars to help poor countries in 2010-12 and then helped to raise 100 billion a year by 2020. But does not say from where will the money, saying that there will be a wide range of sources, public and private. This means that rich countries will seek to exploit markets in the C02 to get almost all the money and launch a few public funds. - On other news site www.reuters.it Reuters in Italian. The top news also on www.twitter.com / reuters_italia