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The Berkeley Earth organization recently published a report in which it calculates that the global temperature increased by an average of 1.3ºC from the pre-industrial baseline. In the case of Bolivia, the increase was also 1.3ºC and it is projected that by 2100 it will be 3.2ºC.
“Global warming is caused by elevated levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, with carbon dioxide and methane being the main gases contributing to anthropogenic warming. To limit future warming, we must stop increasing the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide. carbon”, warned the agency in the study.
“The window is rapidly closing to reach the (maximum) 1.5°C warming target set by the Paris Agreement; the world would need a 55% reduction in global emissions by 2030 compared to the reduction of 7.5% representing current commitments. Limiting warming to 1.5°C by 2100 would require a 14% annual reduction in emissions from this year through 2040,” they detailed.
Given these figures, the president of the Senate Committee on Land and Territory, Natural Resources and the Environment, Cecilia Requena, expressed her concern and criticized the actions of the authorities.
“Tremendous data! It is known that the average temperature increase in Bolivia will be predictably higher than the global one due to geographic location (center of the continent) and altitude. The worst: the government and most actors are ignoring and aggravating this suicide by deforesting more, among others “, published the legislator of the Citizen Community (CC).
The senator assured that there is no “collective cry” to improve this situation, and assured that “an indispensable change of course is needed, among others, because this challenge is progressive, complex, unprecedented and easy to neglect in the face of multiple distractions and other problems. Our capacities for understanding and collective action are exceeded”.
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Likewise, Requena reflected on the position of each person in the country: “If we do not manage to change our course soon, we will have contributed, by action and omission, to cement a future of deep systemic imbalances, which will cause much additional suffering to the Bolivian population. ”. And he assured “there are shared responsibilities, although differentiated.”
Last week, an analysis by the World Research Institute (WRI) positioned Bolivia as the third country that destroyed the most hectares of primary tropical humid forest in 2021, only surpassed by Brazil and the People’s Republic of the Congo.
