RSS
Romania has reduced its per capita greenhouse gas emissions by 55 percent in the past 20 years
Romania has reduced its per capita greenhouse gas emissions by 55 percent in the past 20 years, and some 4.5 billion euros will flow into the national economy by 2030 through the wind energy sector, Minister of the Environment and Climate Change Attila Korodi told the meeting of the high-level segment of the 20th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP20) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Lima.
"As regards renewable energy, in 2013, the contribution of energy from renewable resources to Romania's total consumption basket reached 40 percent. This success could be achieved with major efforts and significant costs for the population, but it also translated into job creation and the introduction of new technologies in the economy. For instance, the figures speak about the creation of about 10,000 jobs and the injection, by 2030, of about 4.5 billion euros into Romania's economy only through the wind energy sector. Romania, in the last 20 years, has reached the performance of reducing its per capita emissions by 55 percent," Korodi explained.
According to the Minister, the commitments of the countries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent until 2030 compared to 1990 are significant but insufficient.
According to a release from the relevant Ministry (MMSC), Attila Korodi participates over December 9 - 12, 2014 in the high-level segment of the 20th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP20) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change taking place in Lima, Peru.
The efforts of the more than 10,000 delegates present at COP20 are aimed at strengthening the basis for the conclusion of the new global agreement on climate change. This framework agreement is expected to be signed in December 2015 in Paris, and will come into effect from 2020.
The agreement must include all the 195 state-parties to the UNFCCC. They must present compulsory national contributions designed to annihilate the major risk of global temperature rising by more than two degrees Celsius compared to the pre-industrial period.
According to the MMSC release, despite intense negotiations have been carried for more than 10 days now, no consensus was reached on either the text of the decision proposition negotiated under the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action (ADP), or the elements of the draft agreement for 2015. Quite the opposite, the texts increased in both size and complexity. From the European Union's standpoint, this happens because some states prefer to inflexibly maintain their positions rather than getting out of their own comfort zone and working together.
A meeting of the Standing Bureau of the UN Environment Assembly was organised on the sidelines of the meeting in Peru. Discussions focused on the COP20 climate change subject, as well as on the organization of the second UNEA session to be held in 2016.
In his capacity as UNEA Vice-President, Minister Attila Korodi assured the members of the Bureau of Romania's support as regards the implementation of the resolutions of the first UNEA session that took place in June in Nairobi - Kenya.