Avoidable climate change is happening now and it is the biggest challenge of this century caused by human activity. This has occurred over the last decades of the industrial revolution, through the burning of fossil fuels and the release of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, carbon dioxide (CO2), being the most significant, according to United Nations intergovernmental plan on climate change (IPPC).
what is it?
In simple terms the planet has a blanket around it which keeps our average temperature around 15°c ... without this the world would be around -18°c. The blanket therefore traps the heat from escaping into space, keeping the temperature within the planet. However the extra greenhouse gases that humans emit add to the blanket and therefore increasing the temperature on Earth.
Avoidable climate change causes extreme weather conditions and temperature rises throughout the world. The effects of climate change has been proven by scientific research to be caused by avoidable human activity. This change, beginning with the world’s industrialistion, has caused an upset in the natural balance of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.
CO2 levels have hugely increased from virtually nothing to 37 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) per year. The rise in the levels have caused ice caps to melt, sea levels to rise, flooding, droughts, food shortages, water shortage loss of plants and animal species.
Governments around the world are now introducing policies for us all, individuals, businesses and public sector organisations, to contribute to the reduction of global warming. Currently the world target has been set to reduce 80% of CO2 emissions by 2050. This is a deadline that has to be met to avoid catastrophic disasters taking place. It is important to look ahead to the generations to come, from children to grand children.
Therefore each country has set up their own policies, regulations and targets to reach the ultimate goal by 2050.
It is Pure Carbon Zero’s mission to facilitate governments in reaching their/our goal of 80% reduction by 2050.
