14 DAY TRIAL // After walking out of the ongoing UN climate summit in Warsaw, Poland and labeling this meeting as a complete waste of time, six of the world's largest green groups took it to themselves to get high officials to roll out policies intended to put a leash on climate change and global warming.
To this end, they have come up with the list of three things governments worldwide must do before things get further out of control and limiting global warming to just 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) by the end of the century is no longer possible.
The World Wildlife Fund details that what needs to be done is agree on and implement stricter pollution reduction targets for 2020, and provide developing nations with the money and the technologies without which they do not stand a chance to survive climate change.
Offer protection to those bound to be hit the hardest by ongoing changes in weather patterns is also of utmost importance, the organization maintains.
The environmentalists argue that, in order to limit environmental pollution and push for sustainability, world leaders must first and foremost pull the plug on investments in dirty energy sources, and focus on harvesting renewables instead.
“We call on all leaders to prove in Warsaw that they will choose clean energy over dirty energy, renewables over fossil fuels, peoples’ needs and desires over corporate interests, and a safe future without run-away climate change,” the World Wildlife Fund writes on its website.
Together with the folks at Greenpeace, Oxfam, Friends of the Earth and other green groups, the Fund warns that, contrary to what some might say, climate change is not only real, but also happening at a fast pace.
The environmentalists argue that this phenomenon is already affecting millions of people worldwide and that, unless something is soon done, it is only a matter of time before things go from bad to worse.
“Climate impacts are already affecting millions of people across the world in the form of more unpredictable rainfall patterns, more erratic severe and extreme weather, rising sea levels and melting glaciers. This is putting pressure and stress on our farmers and food systems, driving price spikes, food shortages and more hunger.”
“And many millions more could be affected in the future as homes, and communities are destroyed and our lives and livelihoods are disrupted or lost - unless world leaders take meaningful action against climate change,” the World Wildlife Fund cautions.