Focus on climate change

Considering the gravity of climate impacts, there should be a parliamentary committee to deal with them.

Despite promises made by governments to cut carbon emissions over successive Conference of Parties (COP) meetings since 2015, greenhouse gas emissions continued to increase rapidly in 2022 . A slight decrease in emissions in 2020 due to the pandemic demonstrated how such a reduction would save the earth from a series of possible climate catastrophes. The message, however, seems to have been ignored bluntly in favour of the greed for fossil fuel-led economic growth. The latest and most prominent example is the United States. Despite opposition from environmentalists due to its adverse impacts on climate change, the Biden administration approved a huge oil drilling project in Alaska a month ago. Such decisions make it less likely that the global community will achieve a 43 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 as outlined by the Paris goals of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius.