A Citizen's Commitment to Energy Transition
Updated: Jun 26
By Patricia Hernandez
Climate Change and Polluting Emissions
Did you know that in the 2015 Paris Agreement, all participant countries committed to reduce their gas emissions to prevent the increase in the average temperature of the planet from exceeding 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels? Well, at the 26th United Nations World Climate Change Convention it was confirmed that the Paris agreements are not being fulfilled. At the same convention, the United Nations Environment Agency estimated that if global methane emissions were reduced by 30%, 200,000 premature deaths related to respiratory diseases could be avoided each year.
This proves that the response of the United States to climate change is slow and not very forceful. It is therefore worth thinking about what each of us can do to mitigate or adapt to the threats of climate change.
