Icsd, 2016
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The document discusses the outcomes of the 2016 international conference on sustainable development in Rome, focusing on the Arctic's role in addressing climate change by reducing black carbon and methane emissions. It emphasizes the need for a unified definition of black carbon, a moratorium on hydrocarbon exploitation, and the establishment of a binding framework for emissions. Additionally, it highlights geopolitical challenges and advocates for the Arctic to be recognized as a common heritage of mankind.
Icsd, 2016
- 1. INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, 2016 ROME, ITALY Looking beyond Climate Change Convention to attain Global Sustainability Targets
- 2. Contentious Arctic to become a part of the solution to global warming and climate change
- 3. Tackling Black Carbon and Methane emissions at Arctic to curb future sea level rise.
- 4. A mandate for MRV as a non- starter under the Kyoto Protocol and the dissent to empower independent third party verification of emissions.
- 5. Slow steaming, a viable operational measure to reduce Black Carbon Taking forward the ABC treaty or the Framework for BC and Methane Emissions in the Arctic.
- 6. Geopolitical issues haunt the Arctic as geological interests of nations attempt to capitalize on the vulnerability of the region.
- 7. Unfaltering steps towards Arctic Sustainability: • Providing an uniform definition to the term ‘BC’’. • Declaring Arctic as ‘common heritage of mankind. • Moratorium on hydrocarbon exploitation in the region • Preventing militarization of the Arctic • Rendering the Framework for BC and Methane Emissions as a binding agreement. • Ensure compliance of slow steaming method.