Monday 5 January 2015

CLIMATE CHANGE

The Lima Climate Change Conference , December 2014. concluded with 196 countries adoping an agreement called the " Lima Call to Climate Action" asking nations to reduce green house gases.It has paved the way for Paris  agreement next year based upon princiles of equity and differentiated resonsibility.The agreement puts an end to the prolonged effort of advanced countries to make developing countries pay  for mistakes committed by the former for industrial purposes. ( The New Indian Express ,16,Dec. 2014)
More than 5 trillion pieces of plastic weighing nearly 269,000 tonnes are littering the ocean, says a study published in PLOS One... The largest  source of plastic pollutants is fishing nets and buoys, All of these are dangerous for marine life and pose a threat to human life, Human kind's only habitat will be poisoned beyond redemtion, if international community hesitates to act . (The New  Indian Express,12 December, 2014).