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=2011 - 2013= | =2011 - 2013= | ||
Following couple of years was about further fighting and struggling around climate change negotiations. Those years brought new local tragedies in a face of floods, droughts and fires. However they also brought full support to project REDD from EU and some agreement on LCA content amongst leading economies, fixing somewhat "average" options in most.<br><br> | Following couple of years was about further fighting and struggling around climate change negotiations. Those years brought new local tragedies in a face of floods, droughts and fires. However they also brought full support to project REDD from EU and some agreement on LCA content amongst leading economies, fixing somewhat "average" options in most.<br><br> | ||
The EU harbored many companies active on the green technology sector (wind turbines, solar power generation, efficiency improvement, etc.). These companies saw a worldwide market once an agreement on UN level would have been reached. | The EU harbored many companies active on the green technology sector (wind turbines, solar power generation, efficiency improvement, etc.). These companies saw a worldwide market once an agreement on UN level would have been reached. They started heavily lobbying governments and the EU representatives in the UN conferences to establish global GHG abatement rules. <br><br> | ||
In the meanwhile the EU started to implement carbon trading within | In the meanwhile the EU started to implement carbon trading within the region and between the EU members. This project was also pushed by the pressure on EU governments by the European citizens. The public awareness in the EU about the necessity of measures mitigating climate change had been high even before the meeting in Cancun. However, mainly NGOs were waking up the people and so the governments could feel the rising pressure, that something needs to be done. <br><br> | ||
right after the U.S.). The signs were directing towards China becoming the number one also for the EU.<br><br> | |||
Mostly driven by the public awareness and the pressure that came from this direction on the EU governments after the fiasco in Cancun, the region decided to put emission reduction limits for its region of 25% in the early stage of this time period. Because | Mostly driven by the [[Dynamics_of_Public_Support|public awareness]] and the pressure that came from this direction on the EU governments after the fiasco in Cancun, the region decided to put emission reduction limits for its region of 25% in the early stage of this time period. Because some companies proved that installation of emissions reducing technologies also increased the efficiency, [[Position_of_Corporates|corporations]] started rapidly investing in this area. This had lead to the fact that emissions reduction target was reached soon after it came out as a EU wide regulation.<br><br> | ||
With this measure the region mainly tried to be a symbol to other countries around the world to also set reduction targets. It was also the green tech industry that pushed its governments to come to a global agreement. Moreover this should be another sign to the world that the EU | With this measure the region mainly tried to be a symbol to other countries around the world to also set reduction targets. It was also the green tech industry that pushed its governments to come to a global agreement. Moreover this should be another sign to the world that the EU aggregation of 27 countries without a governing body at that time - was going to be more unified.<br><br> | ||
In a second step the EU environment ministers decided upon a McKinsey report on climate change from 2009 to offer half of the amount needed to reduce GHG emissions to nations that use the money for this purpose. With | In a second step the EU environment ministers decided upon a McKinsey report on climate change from 2009 to offer half of the amount needed to reduce GHG emissions to nations that use the money for this purpose. With an yearly GDP of around 15 trillion (EU) this would have amounted to a yearly spending of 3% (=EUR 415 bn) of its GDP. The other half, the EU expected, should come from the other part of the developed world, the USA. However, this did not happen in this period. The position of the USA in fighting global warming was not so progressive.<br><br> | ||
The money | The money were supposed to be used for one or more of the three GHG abatement opportunity areas such as energy efficiency, low-carbon energy supply and/or forestry & agriculture. Obviously, the funding was related to strict reporting and compliance standards.<br><br> | ||
In the middle of this period | In the middle of this period more severe nature catastrophes occurred in China. Furthermore its cities were constantly highly polluted and more and more people were suffering from respiratory and other health issues because of this. The number of deaths caused by air pollution has increased dramatically. Already having a lot of "green" technology manufacturing inside the country, Chinese government decided to reduce carbon emission to some extend using local technologies and technologies provided by EU companies.<br><br> | ||
Chinese government decided to put reduction limits and declared this on the one of global climate change conferences. However at that point in time China and EU were the only countries or regions that already started implementing reduction limits. The developing countries were mainly concerned about their economic growth and saw it negatively affected, if they had put GHG reduction targets. Furthermore China was receiving the significant part of the funds provided by the EU in terms of agreement on meeting emissions reduction target, so for a lot of other countries EU was not able to provide enough financial and technology support to in order to reduce emissions. | Chinese government decided to put light reduction limits of 20% to the year 2030 with a year 2000 baseline and declared this on the one of global climate change conferences. However at that point in time China and EU were the only countries or regions that already started implementing reduction limits. The developing countries were still mainly concerned about their economic growth and saw it negatively affected, if they had put GHG reduction targets. Furthermore China was receiving the significant part of the funds provided by the EU in terms of agreement on meeting emissions reduction target, so for a lot of other countries EU was not able to provide enough financial and technology support to in order to reduce emissions. | ||
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