As “Global Warming” is an issue of the global magnitude it is important for the peoples of the world to know,listen,debate and think about this issue.Awareness and ignorance about this issue can affect humans both individually and collectively.In 2007-2008 “Gallup Polls”surveyed 127 countries.Over a third of the world’s population was unaware of the global warming,woth people in developing countries less aware than those in developed ,and those in Africa are least aware.In the western world,opinions over the concept and the appropriate responses are divided .
The debate in Europe is about what action needs to be taken while many in the US still debate whether climate change is happening,A2010 poll by the office of National Statistics found that 75% of UK respondents were atleast “fairly convinced” that the world’s climate is changing.A July 2011 Rasmussen Reports-poll found that 69% of adults in the US believe it is atleast somewhat likely that some scientists have exaggerated global warming research.This opinion may reflect what a highly industrialized country like USA intends about reducing the emission of harmful gases. The international community is fully aware of the magnitude and intensity of the global warming if not stopped.So various platforms such as UNDP and other intergovernmental organizations and NGO’s are surfacing to contain the global warming.The major efforts made so far in this regard include the signing of certain treaties such as “Kyoto protocol” of 1997.
”Earth Summit (1992) and Johanesrberg’ Copenhagen conferences’.Among all aforementioned conferences and protocols,which strive to control global warming.Kyoto,which is a japenese city where this landmark agreement took place in 1997 demands the industrialized countries,specifically the US one of the largest pollutant of the world,to cut down their global emission of Carbon dioxide gas by 5% of their 1990 level uptil 2012.This protocol has been ratified by more than 171 countries in February 2005 and fully operational nowadays.The US is the most blatant non signatory of this proyocol and is devising many counter strategies and protocols to defy its sanctity.
