15 December 2019
Emissions of greenhouse gas associated with human activities reached a historical maximum. Climate change, fuelled by economic growth and population growth, is having a broad impact on people and natural systems in every country on every continent.
As air and ocean temperatures rise, the amount of snow and ice has decreased and sea level has risen. Surface temperatures are projected to continue to rise during the twenty first century. As climate change has significant impacts on economic development, natural resources and poverty reduction, overcoming this problem has become an integral part of achieving sustainable development, as reflected in Sustainable Development Goal 13. Providing affordable and scalable solutions to climate change will avoid destabilizing the gains of recent decades as a result of this phenomenon and enable countries to make future transitions to low-carbon economies.
The climate change instrument is the Paris Agreement, which was adopted by all 196 parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) at the 21st Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC, held in Paris on 12 December 2015. In the agreement, all countries commit to work towards a global temperature rise well below 2 degrees Celsius and, given the seriousness of the risks involved, to work towards limiting the temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
25 The Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change was held in Madrid from 2 to 13 December 2019. This was a key event aimed at developing and adopting a full and meaningful set of decisions that will enable the Paris Agreement mechanisms to be launched.
The high-level segment of the 25th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change was attended by a delegation from the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection of the Republic of Belarus headed by Minister Andrey Pavlovich Khudyk.
The Minister noted the commitment of the Republic of Belarus to sustainable development, which is impossible without solving the problem of climate change and which is singled out in a separate agenda. “Understanding the undoubted importance of climate change actions, the Republic of Belarus has responded responsibly to the call to strengthen ambitions in this direction and intends to increase its national commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by at least 35 per cent by 2030 compared to 1990, exclusively at the expense of its own resources,” he said in his report.
The Republic of Belarus is taking measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and measures to adapt and increase absorption of greenhouse gases in accordance with the national plan of action to implement the Paris Agreement. Such measures include transition to a circular economy, introduction of energy-efficient technologies, development of sustainable urban mobility, for example, electric transport, preservation of wetlands and development of a system of specially protected natural areas. All this makes it possible to reduce risks associated with climate change.
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