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Ten key moments in the climate change fight

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Agence France-Presse

<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img alt="Cyclists share the road with motorists in Makati’s central business district on August 8, 2022. The Philippines" financial="" hub="" is="" looking="" at="" the="" scientific="" data="" of="" its="" impact="" on="" climate="" change="" and="" declared="" a="" state="" emergency="" to="" address="" studying="" how="" policies="" that="" it="" will="" adopt="" help="" rising="" temperatures.="" Jonathan="" ABS-CBN="" src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2022/business/09/08/20220808-makati-climate-emergency-jc-0295.jpg"/><figcaption>Cyclists share the road with motorists in Makati’s central business district on August 8, 2022. The Philippines&#x27; financial hub is looking at the scientific data of its impact on climate change and declared a state of climate emergency to address on the ground, and is studying how policies that it will adopt will help address rising temperatures. <em>Jonathan Cellona, ABS-CBN News</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>PARIS — Ahead of UN climate talks in Dubai from November 30, here are 10 key dates in the battle against global warming.</p><div><strong>1988: Alarm bells </strong></div><p>Alerted by scientists to signs that the Earth&#x27;s surface was warming, in 1988 the United Nations established the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to investigate.</p><p>Two years later, the panel reported that heat-trapping &quot;greenhouse&quot; gases generated by human activity were on the rise and could intensify planetary warming.</p><p>In a series of studies, evidence accumulated that human activities —voracious burning of coal, oil and gas; rainforest logging; and destructive farming practices — were heating the Earth&#x27;s surface, a prelude to disruptions of its climate system.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/spotlight/10/27/23/how-mainstreaming-climate-change-can-spur-action">How mainstreaming climate change can spur action</a></li></ul><div><strong>1992: Earth Summit </strong></div><p>An &quot;Earth Summit&quot; in Rio de Janeiro in 1992 created the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), with the aim of reducing greenhouse-gas emissions.</p><p>Since 1995, so called &quot;Conferences of the Parties&quot;, or COPs, have been meeting to pursue that elusive goal.</p><div><strong>1997: Kyoto Protocol </strong></div><p>In 1997, nations agreed in Kyoto, Japan, on a 2008-2012 timeframe for industrialised nations to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions by an average of 5.2 percent from 1990 levels.</p><p>Developing countries, including China, India and Brazil, were not required to take on binding targets.</p><p>But in 2001, the United States, at the time the world&#x27;s biggest carbon emitter, refused to ratify the protocol, which took effect in 2005.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/08/07/23/marcos-tells-ph-to-brace-for-climate-change-after-luzon-floods">Marcos tells Philippines to brace for climate change after Luzon floods</a></li></ul><div><strong>Nobel prize </strong></div><p>The IPCC reported in 2007 that evidence of global warming was now &quot;unequivocal&quot; and that extreme weather events would probably multiply.</p><p>In October 2007, the UN panel shared the Nobel Peace Prize with former US vice president Al Gore for their efforts in raising the alarm about climate change.</p><div><strong>Copenhagen collapse </strong></div><p>Participants at the COP15 gathering in Copenhagen failed to achieve an agreement for the post-2012 period.</p><p>Several dozen major emitters, including China and the United States, announced a goal of limiting global temperature increases to two degrees Celsius (35.6 Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels but were vague on how the goal was to be reached.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/10/24/23/albay-declares-climate-emergency-pledges-push-for-renewables">Albay declares &#x27;climate emergency&#x27;, pledges push for renewable energy</a></li></ul><div><strong>2015: Breakthrough in Paris</strong></div><p>In December 2015, nearly every nation on Earth committed to limit warming to &quot;well below&quot; two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.</p><p>A more ambitious cap of 1.5 Celsius is also adopted as the preferred target.</p><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe allow="autoplay; fullscreen" frameBorder="0" height="100%" id="ivsplayer01" scrolling="no" src="https://player.ivideosmart.com/ivsplayer/v4/dist/html/iframe-src.html?iframeid=ivsplayer01&amp;key=e8c22c015ca9eafa76f1e3edfa03c603&amp;spid=3001339&amp;vid=2641334" width="100%"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more News on <a href="https://www.iwanttfc.com/#!/browse/Genres/News/tag_id_genres/id_news" target="_blank">iWantTFC</a></div><div><strong>2018: Greta Thunberg</strong></div><p>In 2018, Swedish teen Greta Thunberg started skipping school on Fridays to sit outside the Swedish parliament, demanding more substantive action to combat climate change.</p><p>Despite ending her Friday protests in 2023 after graduating, her protest inspired students worldwide to skip class each Friday in a bid for more efforts from global leaders.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/overseas/09/06/23/climate-change-worsening-heatwaves-air-quality-un">Climate change worsening heatwaves, air quality: UN</a></li></ul><div><strong>Record emissions</strong></div><p>In 2022, the International Energy Agency reported that global CO2 emissions would hit an annual record.</p><p>But at a COP27 meeting that year in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, participants failed to agree on more ambitious emissions cuts.</p><div><strong>2022: Biodiversity deal</strong></div><p>An accord on biodiversity is reached in Montreal in December 2022, calling for the designation of 30 percent of the planet&#x27;s land and oceans as protected zones by 2030, and an end of extinctions of threatened species due to human activities.</p><div><strong>New warning </strong></div><p>The United Nations warned that despite efforts so far, the world would see its first full year at 1.5 Celsius above pre-industrial levels in the early 2030s.</p><p>According to the European Union&#x27;s climate observatory Copernicus, global temperatures in the summer of 2023 were the hottest ever registered.</p><div><strong>© Agence France-Presse</strong></div>

Ahead of UN climate talks in Dubai from November 30, here are 10 key dates in the battle against global warming.