{"id":685,"date":"2015-03-31T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-31T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beta.libelula.com.pe\/indc-eeuu-y-rusia-presentan-ambiciosos-compromisos-de-reduccion-de-gases-de-efecto-invernadero\/"},"modified":"2019-12-01T16:32:17","modified_gmt":"2019-12-01T21:32:17","slug":"indc-eeuu-y-rusia-presentan-ambiciosos-compromisos-de-reduccion-de-gases-de-efecto-invernadero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libelula.com.pe\/en\/indc-eeuu-y-rusia-presentan-ambiciosos-compromisos-de-reduccion-de-gases-de-efecto-invernadero\/","title":{"rendered":"INDC: U.S. and Russia present ambitious greenhouse gas reduction commitments"},"content":{"rendered":"

March 31, 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n

The United States is committed to reducing its emissions by 26% to 28% by 2025, compared to 2005 levels, while Russia will reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 20% to 25% by 2030, compared to 1990 levels.<\/p>\n

The world's most eagerly awaited announcement was made today. The United States - the largest emitter of Greenhouse Gases (GHG) on the planet (22.2% of total emissions) - submitted its Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), pledging to reduce its emissions by between 26% and 28% by 2025 from the 2005 level.<\/p>\n

Like them, Russia also presented its commitment and will reduce GHG levels from 20% to 25% by 2030 compared to 1990 levels, subject to the maximum absorption capacity of forests; and emissions from the energy, industrial, agriculture, land use and waste sectors will be reduced. It also establishes that the maximum emissions to be reached will be from 70% to 75% with no possibility of exceeding them.<\/p>\n

Both announcements represent the responsibility of nations to reduce global warming. With the United States and Russia, 34 countries have officially submitted their INDCs: the European Union bloc, Norway, Switzerland, and Mexico, the latter being the only Latin American nation that has so far made its contribution official.<\/p>\n

Reduction actions<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe United States is firmly committed to reducing greenhouse gas pollution, and to contributing to the objectives of the Convention, which establishes in its Article 2 the stabilization of GHG concentrations at a level that would prevent anthropogenic interference with the climate system. The United States intends to achieve the objective and reduce emissions between 26% and 28% below the 2005 level by 2025 and to make every effort to achieve 28%.\u201d,<\/em> reads the official U.S. document.<\/p>\n

This nation's contribution establishes that efforts will be made to reduce GHGs by 17% in 2020 and achievement by 2025 will require a further reduction of between 9% and 11%, thereby establishing an annual reduction of 2.3% to 2.8%. To achieve this, a number of laws, existing regulations and other measures will be put in place in the country.<\/p>\n

Here you can download the U.S. INDC.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Russia accounts for 70% of boreal forests and 25% of the world's forest resources. Rational use, protection, maintenance and forest management are the most important elements of Russia's policy to reduce GHG emissions from 20% to 25% by 2030.<\/p>\n

Here you can download the Russian INDC. <\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

A global commitment<\/strong><\/p>\n

UNFCCC Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres thanked via Twitter the commitment of the United States and Russia.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith Russia's INDC that's 34 countries submitting contributions, more pledges to come\u201d; \u201cmore nations coming to make INDCs public. The pace bodes well for #COP21 #Paris2015.\u201d<\/em>, he said.<\/p>\n

The INDCs of the United States and Russia are very valuable in urging nations to make their contributions and ensure that the planet's temperature does not increase more than 2 degrees Celsius. During COP21, to be held in December in Paris, all parties are expected to reach a global agreement on significant GHG reductions to address climate change.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The United States pledges to reduce its emissions by 26% to 28% by 2025, compared to 2005 levels, while Russia will reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 20% to 25% by 2030, compared to 1990 levels.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6,316,322,318,15,323],"class_list":["post-685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sin-categorizar","tag-cambio-climatico","tag-cop21","tag-estados-unidos","tag-indc","tag-peru","tag-rusia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libelula.com.pe\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libelula.com.pe\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libelula.com.pe\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libelula.com.pe\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libelula.com.pe\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=685"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/libelula.com.pe\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":875,"href":"https:\/\/libelula.com.pe\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685\/revisions\/875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libelula.com.pe\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libelula.com.pe\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libelula.com.pe\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}