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Europe leads the fight against climate change
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The Earth is rapidly getting warmer, threatening serious and even catastrophic disruption to our societies and to the natural environment on which we depend. Over the course of the 20th century the average temperature increased by around 0.6 °C globally, by almost 1 °C in Europe and by no less than 5 °C in the Arctic. This man-made warming is already having many disruptive effects around the globe. Sea levels are rising as a result of melting glaciers and ice sheets, threatening to flood low-lying communities. Extreme weather conditions – floods, droughts, storms – are becoming more severe, more frequent and more costly in some parts of the world. And many endangered species may be pushed to extinction over the coming decades as climate change affects their traditional habitats. This detailed news report looks at one of the biggest environmental, social and economic threats facing the planet and how it has become a catalyst for a series of tough new policies and measures instigated by the European Union. The video features interviews with experts from the European Commission and the Climate Action Network, a global network of NGOs in this field.
The European Union has been leading international efforts to fight climate change since global
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warming first moved onto the political agenda in the late 1980s.
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Europe has been instrumental in the development of both the United Nations Convention to Combat
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Climate Change and of its Kyoto Protocol.
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A hundred and sixty-nine countries have ratified the protocol, and thirty-five industrialized
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nations among them have committed to reducing their greenhouse gas emissions by an average
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of five percent from 1990 levels by 2012.
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The European Union has gone further and committed itself to an eight percent cut.
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Climate Action Network coordinates the position of a large number of European pressure groups
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on climate change.
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It's clear that the European Union holds a leadership position internationally when it
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comes to climate change.
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They've been pushing the issue at the international level, helping to get the Kyoto Protocol in
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place and getting it enter into force.
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When the United States elected a new president, Mr. Bush, then they went, they walked away
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from the Kyoto Protocol.
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And it was very important to rescue that huge negotiation effort in order to get the first
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policy actions put in place.
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To ensure it meets its Kyoto target, the European Union has developed a major program
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of measures to cut emissions.
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These range from reducing CO2 emissions from new cars and using more biofuels to setting
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energy performance standards for new buildings.
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By far the most important and innovative of this program of measures has been the creation
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of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme, the world's biggest international trading system and now
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the cornerstone of Europe's efforts to fight climate change.
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It covers almost 50% of CO2 emissions in the European Union.
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Launched in 2005, the scheme restricts the amount of CO2 emitted by the most polluting
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industrial installations by giving them a limited number of emissions allowances.
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Companies have a permanent incentive to minimize their emissions because they're allowed to
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sell any allowances they don't need.
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The scheme's flexibility lets companies achieve reductions in the most cost-effective way.
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A company that faces exceeding its emissions limit has a choice between investing in cleaner
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production methods, buying additional allowances on the market from a company with quota to
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spare
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- Nivel Intermedio
- Autor/es:
- The European Union
- Subido por:
- EducaMadrid
- Licencia:
- Reconocimiento - No comercial - Sin obra derivada
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- Fecha:
- 9 de agosto de 2007 - 10:20
- Visibilidad:
- Público
- Enlace Relacionado:
- European Commission
- Duración:
- 02′ 32″
- Relación de aspecto:
- 4:3 Hasta 2009 fue el estándar utilizado en la televisión PAL; muchas pantallas de ordenador y televisores usan este estándar, erróneamente llamado cuadrado, cuando en la realidad es rectangular o wide.
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