Paris draft — Recognizing the intrinsic relationship between climate change, poverty eradication and equitable access to sustainable development, and reaffirming responses to climate change should aim to meet the specific needs and concerns arising from the adverse impacts of response measures–.
They used all types of jargon: creation of decent work and quality jobs development priorities; safeguarding food security and ending hunger, and the particular vulnerabilities of food production systems to the adverse impacts of climate change; promoting, protecting and respecting all human rights, the right to health, and the rights of indigenous peoples, migrants, children, persons with disabilities and people in vulnerable situations and under occupation, and the right to development, in accordance with their obligations, as well as promoting gender equality and the empowerment of women, when taking action to address climate change, Noting the needs and integrity of terrestrial ecosystems, oceans and Mother Earth.
– All these refer to “climate change and pollution aspects only” and are nothing to do with the global warming and emission control.
However agreement to be signed related to three scenarios of limiting global temperature rise above pre-industrial levels [below 2 °C, 1.5 °C, and below 1.5°C]. All this refers only global warming and yet they are shy of using this word and instead used climate change which has broader issues that were not dealt in the draft has the ramifications cited under jargon mentioned above. This is how UN is wasting public money for honey moon trips in every two years fooling the public.
-Dr. S. Jeevananda Reddy
Formerly Chief Technical Advisor, WMO/UN & Expert – FAO/UN
Fellow of Andhra Pradesh/Telangana Akademy of Sciences
Convenor, Forum for a Sustainable Environment
Hyderabad, India
