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=2014 - 2018= | =2014 - 2018= | ||
With the intention to push | With the intention to push other nations, EU put import duties on goods that had their origin in countries with a certain minimum per capita GDP without emission reduction targets. This was a surprising action for many at that time. However, it was brought forward because EU was steering towards more unification and had now own EU ministers being responsible for each field on EU wide level, including the "Minister for Global Climate Change Issues".<br><br> | ||
This fact plus China becoming | This fact plus China becoming more and more important trading partner (ahead of USA) for the EU, changed the negotiation behavior of EU and thus it also ignore the WTO, which tried to abolish such trade barriers. <br> | ||
The idea was to give the money received | The idea was to give part of the money received from this import duties to developing countries for education and GHG reduction measures. During the end of this period the developing countries also started to employ it for the implementation of green technology and thus realized that could become feasible to agree upon reduction targets.<br><br> | ||
In the past China was importing agricultural goods from some parts in Africa to provide the Chinese population with food. An increasing number of droughts in Africa damaged the harvest on these lands and made this region even more unsuitable for farming. This added to the natural catastrophes still occurring around the world and in China as well.<br><br> | |||
In the past China | Behind the curtains of the UN climate conferences China and EU were talking about the implementation of the import duties by EU. For China this was not a problem, since they had emission reduction targets in place and were planning to align them with EU in a nearest time. However, China was planning to implement such import duties on goods from countries without any reduction targets as well. This was good news for EU. Because since EU had this import duties its relation to US worsened slightly, which affected some EU exports to US. With China putting the same import duties towards the end of this period, US did not have much choice. The biggest trading partner for U.S. was China and EU. <br><br> | ||
Behind the curtains of the UN climate conferences China and EU were talking about the implementation of the import duties by EU. For China this was not a problem, since they had emission reduction targets in place. However, China was planning to implement such import duties on goods from countries without any reduction targets as well. This was good news for EU. Because since EU had this import duties its relation to US worsened slightly, which affected some EU exports to US. With China putting the same import duties towards the end of this period, US did not have much choice. The biggest trading partner for U.S. was China and EU. <br><br> | In the climate negotiations, however, US was still concentrating on its own heavy industry and thus was not willing to put any reasonable emission targets. The developing countries had other problems, like fighting poverty and improving infrastructure. So the climate change would still negatively affect their growth. During this period they did not agree to put emission targets. Furthermore they were not affected by the import duties of China and EU, since their GDP per capita was under the threshold. | ||
In the climate negotiations, however, US was still concentrating on its own industry and thus was not willing to put any emission targets. The developing countries | |||
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Additionally, more and more corporations world-wide recent years started moving towards AAA Green Rankings being put under the pressure of NGOs from one side and their "as green as you can be" business partners from the other. Leading countries governments being pushed by public to seal the deal met this corporations behavior as a relief and came back to the LCA discussion. In | Additionally, even more and more corporations world-wide recent years started moving towards AAA Green Rankings being put under the pressure of NGOs from one side and their "as green as you can be" business partners from the other. Leading countries governments being pushed by public to seal the deal met this corporations behavior as a relief and came back to the LCA discussion. In 2016 a number of countries ratified LCA, which was consolidated recently with some other Climate Change proposals, such as the REDD agreement (the last one became as part of the main document by demand from Brazil and some other countries, who faced huge forest fires in Amazonian earlier the same year). But some were upset to realize that it was mainly the same countries who already ratified Kyoto Protocol before. Others also started pointing to the fact that according to IPCC reports this document was already out of date even before being signed and has to be remade again to bring any real benefit.<br> | ||
Being put into the changing climate conditions some countries as US or Japan followed Russia's example and implemented new adaption plans in their Climate Change policies. While keeping some distance from other negotiators even after coming back to the table, China faced two consecutive years of droughts, which lead to the food supply crisis and even hunger in the Northern regions of the country. Hunger became a final chord that put country into the recession.<br> | Being put into the changing climate conditions some countries as [[Position_of_US|US]] or Japan followed Russia's example and implemented new adaption plans in their Climate Change policies. While keeping some distance from other negotiators even after coming back to the table in UN, China faced two consecutive years of droughts in 2016 nd 2017, which along with problems with African exporters lead to the food supply crisis and even hunger in the Northern regions of the country. Hunger became a final chord that put country into the recession. This allowed Chine to review their projected energy demand growth and made implementation of strict emissions limits more feasible.<br> | ||
=2019 - 2020= | =2019 - 2020= | ||
LCA was reworked in a shortest time and put with a realistic figures for the countries discussion. It took almost 2 years of regular conferences,meetings and debates to make countries agree on conditions. Process of moving from "paying out sins" LCA to the "saving the planet" LCA was not as long as for agreeing on the | |||
USA agreed finally in the UN negotiations in 2018 to sign the LCA and reduce GHGs. This move required mainly the U.S. industry to improve efficiency. The country did this for two reasons: | LCA was reworked in a shortest time and put with a realistic figures for the countries discussion. It took almost 2 years of regular conferences,meetings and debates to make countries agree on conditions. Process of moving from "paying out sins" LCA to the "saving the planet" LCA was not as long as for agreeing on the previous version, but unfortunately was not less painful as well. However, after India, Brazil and US jumped on the boat it was finished.<br><br> | ||
USA agreed finally in the UN negotiations in 2018 to sign the LCA and reduce GHGs. This move required mainly the U.S. industry to improve efficiency. The country did this for two reasons: to avoid the import duties from China and EU and to be an example to developing countries to also set emission targets. USA observed the developing countries growing economically. The country believed to put with emission targets a brake on this growth, which was seen as a threat to USA. So they communicated it on the UNFCCC conference.<br><br> | |||
Almost in parallel also developing countries, like Brazil, Russia and India put emission reduction targets. This was driven by that they received during the years enough funds to finance such projects like reforestation in Brazil or renewable energy power generation in India. Russia additionally was ultimately affected by several natural catastrophes that were again devastating for their harvest and thus it drove them to reduce GHGs. <br><br> | Almost in parallel also developing countries, like Brazil, Russia and India put emission reduction targets. This was driven by that they received during the years enough funds to finance such projects like reforestation in Brazil or renewable energy power generation in India. Russia additionally was ultimately affected by several natural catastrophes that were again devastating for their harvest and thus it drove them to reduce GHGs. <br><br> | ||
After the main ratification of LCA2 a real hope appeared that in a nearest decades climate will finally stabilize and there will be no irreversible consequences for the planet. | |||
=Timelines= | =Timelines= | ||
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