UNEP - SUSTAINABLE LAW & ENERGY IMPLEMENTATION

Topic Summary

Every government addresses climate change in their own way, but the effects that it has on our planets affect all the countries. Global cooperation in the past has led to some major breakthroughs regarding climate change, such as The Paris Agreement, which massively decreased gas emissions, however this isn’t enough, which is why a solution is needed. For this reason the UNEP committee has made it its goal to try and decrease gas emissions by implementing new and safer laws towards the Earth. Climate change has been around for thousands of years, however after the industrial revolution global temperatures have been on a non stop increase, which is slowly killing off life. A lot of countries have laws in regards to this topic. For example in Costa Rica, for every tree that you cut down, by law you are required to plant two which in turn only increases the number of trees and decreases some pollution. This is a great start, yet the Earth needs more, which is why laws need to be implemented to stop climate change, in order to save the Earth. A few problems that are connected with this issue are the extinctions of several animals, as their homes are being chopped down, or their bodies simply can’t adapt fast enough to the changing temperatures, or just having their homes melt away like the glacier caps with polar bears. This is just one of the problems this issue brings, it also has increased Earth's temperature, which although it has been by small margins, these increases affect us all, as if the average temperature rises by just six degrees Celsius everyone would die, due to volcanic eruptions, massive erosion and desert heat waves. Some subtopics we believe to be crucial in this debate are: law implementations, sanctions, solutions short and long term, effects in a short and long term scenario, and environmental programs.