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The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
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Target Action Plan #25 implements SDG 13 and its Targets, reverse global warming and protect against and mitigate its adverse effects in particular devastating weather
• Reverses Global Warming:
• Reduces green house gases in particular carbon dioxide emissions
• Increases green house gas removal
• Eliminate all open fires, forests, tundra, wildfires, etc.
• Mitigate adverse effects of Global Warming as appropriate:
• Prevent the extinction of as many life forms as possible
• Reduce the amount of required human migrations and species relocations and facilitate where necessary
• Decreases ocean level rising by decreasing land ice that is melting into the ocean
• Strengthens structures and homes
• Pipes water to drought areas
• Provides enhanced heating and cooling
(Updated July 14, 2021)
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TAP
25 Reverse Global Warming and mitigate its adverse effects
25.1 Introduction
25.1.1 Basically, we have always had climate change but it has mostly been mild compared to today. Higher levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide now are causing global warming which is causing harsh climate change events
25.1.1.1 Humans and animal life oxidize carbohydrates into CO2, generating energy and organic products for growth and sustainability. Carbon based fueled steam engines, trains, cars, airplanes, coal burning, fires, etc. oxidize fuels into carbon dioxide (CO2). They both increase the levels of atmospheric CO2, the most important greenhouse gas.
25.1.1.2 Green vegetation and some other organisms absorb energy from sunlight to synthesize carbon dioxide and water into carbohydrates. This decreases carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere and supplies the organic products that plants need to grow and thrive.
25.1.1.3 For many years, when carbon dioxide increased, massive forests and other vegetation would increase and grow larger and use up the excess carbon dioxide.
25.1.2 Since the industrial revolution:
25.1.2.1 Human activity including increases in population growth, the use of carbon based fuels, deforestation, other decreases in vegetation, wars, etc., have produced more carbon dioxide than green plants can handle and the increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide is increasing global warming.
25.1.2.2 Global warming causes the air to hold more water vapors, which are very strong greenhouse gases causing increases in both global warming and its adverse effects in particular harsh climate change.
25.1.3 The following is paraphrased from H. Res.109 - Recognizing the duty of the Federal Government to create a Green New Deal.116th Congress (2019-2020) .
25.1.3.1 Increases in global warming causes ground ice and glaciers to melt, causing sea levels to rise and an increase in wildfires, severe storm with much larger rainfalls and flooding, droughts, and other extreme weather events that threaten human life, healthy communities, and critical infrastructure
25.1.3.2 Global warming at or above 2 degrees Celsius beyond pre-industrialized levels would cause-
25.1.3.3 Mass migration from the regions most affected by climate change;
25.1.3.4 More than $500,000,000,000 in lost annual economic output in the United States by the year 2100;
25.1.3.5 Wildfires that, by 2050, will annually burn at least twice as much forest area in the western United States than was typically burned by wildfires in the years preceding 2019;
25.1.3.6 A loss of more than 99 percent of all coral reefs on Earth;
25.1.3.7 More than 350,000,000 more people to be exposed globally to deadly heat stress by 2050; and a risk of damage to $1,000,000,000,000 of public infrastructure and coastal real estate in the United States; and
25.1.4 Since H. Res 109 was created, eleven thousand world scientists signed the report World Scientists' Warning of a Climate Emergency which was issued on November 5, 2019
25.1.5 Global temperatures must be kept below 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrialized levels [and decreased].
25.1.6 Increasing carbon dioxide levels are out of control and must be addressed ASAP.
25.1.7 Information about renewable energy is provided in SDG Goal 7 - Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all
This plan outlines actions to reverse global warming and protect against and mitigate its adverse effects in particular devastating weather
25.3 Objectives. The objectives of this plan include to implement:
25.3.1 Sustainable Development Goal 13: Take urgent action to combat global warming and climate change and its impacts and its Targets:
25.3.1.1 Target13.1 Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards and natural disasters in all countries
25.3.1.2 Target13.2 Integrate climate change measures into national policies, strategies and planning
25.3.1.3 Target 13.3 Improve education, awareness-raising and human and institutional capacity on climate change mitigation, adaptation, impact reduction and early warning.
25.3.1.4 Target 13.A. Implement the commitment undertaken by developed-country parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to a goal of mobilizing jointly $100 billion annually as rapidly as possible from all sources to address the needs of developing countries in the context of meaningful mitigation actions and transparency on implementation and fully operationalize the Green Climate Fund through its capitalization as soon as possible
25.3.1.5 Target 13.B Promote mechanisms for raising capacity for effective climate change-related planning and management in least developed countries and small island developing States, including focusing on women, youth and local and marginalized communities
7.b Rapidly expand infrastructure and upgrade technology for supplying modern and sustainable energy services for all in developing countries, in particular least developed countries, small island developing States, and land-locked developing countries, in accordance with their respective programmes of support
25.3.2 Please note that the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is an important international, intergovernmental forum for negotiating the global response to climate change.
25.4.1 As rapidly get everyone in the world healthy and employed at living wages at work reversing global warming, mitigating its adverse effects and eliminating poverty.
25.4.2 Plant vegetables, beans, rice, fruits, berries, herbs, peanuts, bushes, vines, trees, foliage, etc. (This will both provide nutritious food and decrease atmospheric carbon dioxide)
25.4.3 Install solar panels, windmills, insulation, energy efficient appliance, train/maglev transport systems, repair and modernize infrastructure etc.
25.4.4 Reduce and ultimately end the need for fossil fuels
25.4.5 Reverse Global Warming:
25.4.5.1 Reduce green house gases in particular carbon dioxide emissions
25.4.5.2 Increase green house gas removal
25.4.5.3 Implement SDG Goal 7 - Provide reliable, clean renewable energy for everyone and everything possible
25.4.5.4 Eliminate all open fires, forests, tundra, wildfires, etc
25.4.5.5 Plant vegetables, beans, rice, fruits, berries, herbs, peanuts, bushes, vines, trees, foliage, etc. (This will both provide nutritious food and decrease atmospheric carbon dioxide)
25.4.5.6 Install solar panels, windmills, insulation, energy efficient appliance, train/maglev transport systems, repair and modernize infrastructure etc.
25.4.5.7 Reduce and ultimately end the need for fossil fuels.
25.4.6 Mitigate adverse effects of Global Warming as appropriate:
25.4.6.1 Prevent the extinction of as many life forms as possible
25.4.6.2 Reduce the amount of human migrations and species relocations and facilitate where necessary
25.4.6.3 Decrease ocean level rising by decreasing land ice that is melting into the ocean
25.4.6.4 Strengthen structures and homes
25.4.6.5 Pipe water to drought areas
25.4.6.6 Provide enhanced heating and cooling
25.4.6.7 Redistribute cold ocean water and icebergs to areas where cooling is needed
25.4.6.8 Develop an OTC system to reduce ocean surface temperatures and ocean acidification
25.4.7 Within a few months everyone will be self-sufficient and the need for up-front funding and donations will phase out...Within a few years global warming will reverse and the world will cool down to normal levels
25.5.1 Developed country Parties have made a goal of jointly mobilizing $100 billion annually by 2020 to address the needs of developing countries in the context of meaningful mitigation actions. This is not nearly enough
25.5.2 There are several hundred worthy sources for accessing the data on climate change, starting with the UNEP: http://www.unep.org/publications/ebooks/slcf/.
Reducing short lived climate pollutants (SLCPs) - black carbon, methane, tropospheric ozone and some hydro fluorocarbons - will not replace needed reductions of CO2, but they will help slow near-term global warming, lessen regional climate change impacts, and reduce public health risks and crop damage caused by air pollution. Reducing the risks of air pollution is an especially important consideration since it shows that action on short lived climate pollutants would lower a major health barrier to sustainable development. Science is now pointing the way to the most effective measures for reducing these pollutants at the national, regional and global scales.
The objective of the Climate and Clean Air Coalition (founded in 2012) is to enhance global, regional, and national public and private efforts to substantially reduce SLCPs by:
- Raising awareness of short lived climate pollutant impacts and mitigation strategies.
- Enhancing and developing new national and regional actions, including by identifying and overcoming barriers, enhancing capacity, and mobilizing support.
- Promoting best practices and showcasing successful efforts.
- Improving understanding of the science of SLCPs, as well as their impacts and mitigation strategies
According to the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF):
“The most respected scientific bodies have stated unequivocally that global warming is occurring, and people are causing it by burning fossil fuels and cutting down forests.
“This conclusion is shared by the national science academies of developed and developing countries (read the statement [PDF]), plus many other organizations, including the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which was established by the United Nations and the World Meteorological Organization to provide the world with "a clear scientific view" on climate change.
“The only real debate is about how fast warming will occur, and how much damage will be done, as a result of human activities that produce heat-trapping CO2 and other greenhouse-gas emissions.”
Peer review ensures sound science
“Climate scientists, like all scientists, are professional skeptics. They welcome — in fact, rely upon — rigorous challenges to their work from colleagues. Through this process of peer review and independent verification, scientists critique and double- (and triple- and quadruple-) check each others work.
“This can lead to debate and controversy, but over time, solid research is validated, errors are discarded, and a body of reliable facts is created. In addition, science advances by focusing on what is not yet known. In the case of climate change, for example, there is an extremely good general understanding of the phenomenon, but many details are not yet understood. These gaps in the research, as they come to light, are systematically tackled by the scientific community.
“In this context, the kind of material used by climate-change skeptics to cast doubt on global warming — whether it be a handful of emails stolen from an East Anglian research facility or a few errors in an IPCC report — are meaningless. The mountain of climate data assembled over decades by the scientific community as a whole is irrefutable. The records collected and analyzed by independent scientists from many disciplines and thousands of locations, paint a consistent, verifiable picture of a rapidly warming world.”
http://www.edf.org/climate/scientific-consensus