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Global Warming: Preventing Irreversibility

Jan Erik Lane
Public Policy Institute, Belgrade
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DOI icon 10.24018/ejeng.2017.2.7.414

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Submitted 2017-07-09
Published 2017-07-19

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When the UNFCCC (UN Framework Convention on Climate Change) meets again in Bonn for the COP23 (the Conference of the Parties 23) in the fall with Fiji as host, the focus should be upon the GOAL II in the COP21 (the Conference of the Parties 21) Treaty: decarbonisation with 30-40 per cent of 2005 levels until 2030. Several countries now meet the GOAL I of halting the rise in CO2 emissions. And the rest should be asked and helped to do so. But the GOAL II is a very big challenge. It can only be fulfilled with massive investments in solar panel parks.

Keywords: Decarbonisation and the UNFCCC The COP21 Goals Renewables Global Warming Dangers Ouarzazate Size Solar Parks

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