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international climate change negotiations, as for Furthermore, a report just published by the
the first time China – as a developing country – is University of Delft in the Proceeding of National
making a unilateral and unconditional commitment Academy of Science has highlighted a marked
without asking the priority in curbing emissions uptick in the melting of the Pine Island and Thwaites
by the developed economies, the major emitters in glaciers in the Amundsen Sea in the southwest
the last two centuries which to a large extent are Antarctic region. In the last two weeks the report
responsible for the current concentration of CO2 in has been widely covered in the international press,
the atmosphere. raising major concern about the speed of rising
The climate crisis can help to understand the ocean levels due to the melting of the Antarctic
scale and urgency of the pledges by Europe and glaciers and the consequent risks for the planet’s
China. The latest data on the climate crisis and the densely populated coastal areas.
effects of rising temperatures are provided by the US According to the Ice Sheet Model Intercomparison
National Ocean Atmosphere Administration (NOAA) Project (ISMIP6), which is led by NASA’s Goddard
and NASA. Institute,if the greenhouse gas emissions continue at
The NOAA's Global Climate Reports show that the current pace, Greenland and Antarctica's melting
in the first eight months of 2020, the average ice sheets will contribute over 38 centimeters to
temperature of the planet was 1°C higher than the global sea levels by 2100.
average values of the 20th century. Europe and China– Two unilateral commitments
The 2020 NOAA reports also show that the with one goal. Europe is committed to build a
constant growth of CO2 concentration in the climate neutral continent by 2050, launching a
atmosphere(largely due to the use of fossil fuels) regulatory path to accelerate the decarbonization
has now exceeded the safety limit of 400 parts per of the European economy – an ongoing process
million, the thresh old to containing temperature from at least ten years ago – marking profound
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Meanwhile, NASA's observations published in May agriculture and supported by fiscal measures to use
2020 show that the effects of rising temperatures the price of carbon as a lever for the development
on ice melting at the North Pole are much more and deployment of zero-emission technologies and
dramatic than previously estimated, and are systems.
consistent with the events of June 2019 in Greenland It’s a unilateral choice, without any conditionality
(2 billion tons of melted ice in a single day) and the of similar measures from the other developed
melting of permafrost in north-west Russia. economies. The belief is that climate neutrality

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