Climate Change: think more about it

I am sure by now all of you must have heard about Cop15. If you have not, then here is a brief backgrounder courtesy Wikipedia. “The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC or FCCC) is an international environmental treaty produced at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), informally known as the Earth Summit, held in Rio de Janeiro from 3 to 14 June 1992. The objective of the treaty is to stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system.”

The Rio summit has been followed up by several similar summits known as COP (Conferences of the Parties) as the treaty itself sets no mandatory limits on greenhouse gas emissions for individual countries and contains no enforcement mechanisms. These summits decided updates (called "protocols") that would set mandatory emission limits. The principal update is the Kyoto Protocol on Climate Change (1997), or COP 3 which has become much better known than the UNFCCC itself.

COP 15 is currently taking place in Copenhagen, Denmark from 7 December to 18 December 2009.

The overall goal for the COP 15/MOP 5 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Denmark was to establish an ambitious global climate agreement for the period from 2012 when the first commitment period under the Kyoto Protocol expires.

Now I know all of us people interested in technology do know about climate change. We have seen it around us. The weather is getting unpredictable. Himalayas, specifically Uttaranchal where I have spent my teenage is seeing Glaciers shrink at an alarming rate. I think we all should think , analyze and then share our views about this serious matter. If we talk about India in particular, we have some good thoughts about it. Like we want to have 15 per cent of all our energy consumption from renewable energy by 2020. But it is a hard target and we need to consider all our alternatives to meet this target. For a more detailed discussion on the same , check this link Green Global.