"20-20-20" term
Refers to the EU's ambition to reduce greenhouse gas emission by 20% by the year 2020 and at the same time produce 20% of its energy requirements by renewable energies on its own territory and thus help to get rid of the Global Climate Destabilization by reducing the average global temperature increase back down to 0°C. As it became more and more clear around 2000-2005, from the insights of the IPCC, that it was not possible anymore to reduce the average global temperature increase back down to 0°C, the 20-20-20-0 term was first corrected to 20-20-20-2 and later on the 2 was dropped as the consequences were too difficult to sell by certain politicians to their supporters. The 2 refers to 2°C and refers to the IPCCC scenario's that politicians interpreted as "scenario where climate change is manageable". The criticism to this is that, indeed, when one asks a scientist community what is "manageable", they also turn back to situations of evaluating e.g. if a drug's negative side effects outweigh the benefits. Imagine 2 tables with each 100 white rats. All 200 rats are infected with a deadly virus and bacteria mix. The rats on table 2 are injected with the potential vaccine. On table 1, 98% of the rats die. On table 2, only 12% of the rats die. It may be deemed acceptable to administer the vaccine on large scale and accept that 10% of the world population dies. And this is what the 2°C stands for. Accepting an average global temperature rise of up to 2°C is accepting about 1 billion people to die. These 1 billion are represented by a Bangladeshi who are very active in the Climate Change Adaptation Fund debates.
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