By Eryn Hasty<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When\nI played my role in the policy exercise, I felt shocked. I could not believe how much effort it was going\nto take from every single country in order to lower us to lower the global\ntemperature increase by 2100. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n As\nthe rounds progressed my feelings grew stronger, and honestly more frustrated. I was part of India, who initially was one of\nthe lowest contributing country to CO2<\/sub> emissions. On the other hand, most of our country is in\npoverty so we needed money if we wanted to work towards lowering our emissions\nrates even more. I became frustrated because\nthere were many countries who had much higher rate, but also many more resources\nwho became very stubborn as the process developed. The other nations needed them to lower their\nrates, but they did not give in much. It\ntook so much negotiating. <\/p>\n\n\n\n My\ngroup evolved our negotiations and ideas across the debate from asking for less\nmoney for India. This change was prompted\nbecause we realized that there were much needier countries who were also asking\nfor something, and we needed to team up with them in order to get money from\nlarger developed countries as well as have them lower their emission rates. We teamed up with the other developing countries\nand split the money contributed by the other countries in order to work towards\nlowering our emissions more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Emissions\ncan absolutely be cut, but I do not know how effectively and efficiently they\ncan e cut in order to get out temperature increase well under the 2 degrees Celsius\nwe were aiming for. Negotiations become\nvery tricky, and for us to lower by that much all of the countries would need\nto be a lot more generous with their promises to cut emissions and prevent deforestation\/promote\nafforestation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The\nbiggest barrier we faced personally is our lack of money and difficulty getting\nthe larger countries to provide to our efforts. \nWe already had low emission rates which was beneficial, but we also had\nno money and majority of our country is in poverty. Because of this we were asking for money to\nhelp relieve the costs of our environmental efforts and benefit our\ncitizens. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In\nmy opinion, in order for us to catalyze change we must do everything we can to\nlower our emissions rate. To the best of\nour ability the citizens and government can switch to solar power and electric\npower that does not emit harmful CO2<\/sub> into our environment. We can also create more green space instead\nof these concrete jungles we keep spreading. \nWe could also work towards aiding developing countries, so they have the\nopportunity to change their ways as well. \nIf we do everything we can then that is better than doing nothing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Eryn Hasty When I played my role in the policy exercise, I felt shocked. I could not believe how much effort it was going to take from every single country in order to lower us to lower the global temperature increase by 2100. As the rounds progressed my feelings grew stronger, and honestly more … Continue reading Climate Negotiation Reflective Blog Post<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3202,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-simulation"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/biol2013h-2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/biol2013h-2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/biol2013h-2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/biol2013h-2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/biol2013h-2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/biol2013h-2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/biol2013h-2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/biol2013h-2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/biol2013h-2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}