There is urgent need to install warning systems to check the loss of lives due to global warming
The COP 27 meeting is underway in Egypt. It is one of the most significant meets to arrest climate change. The COP stands for the conference of parties, which is a group of countries that are signatories to the UN climate agreement 1992. At the conference being held in Sharm El Sheikh from November 6 to 18, the old yet unresolved issue of financing the technologies and making them available to developing countries will be hotly debated. The developed countries who must take the blame for the rapid climate change are expected to push developing nations to adopt green technologies. It is difficult time to fight climate change though, as most countries are reeling under the Ukraine war which has spiked the energy cost and disrupted the flow of trade thereby reducing their capacity to earn. The less amount in their coffers means lesser resources and even lesser will to invest in green technologies which anyway doesn't come cheap.
The developing countries would like the developed nations to finance their fight against global warming and the transfer of technology that is needed to address climate change. So far the developed countries have shown reluctance to take the financial burden or transfer technology to the developing nations. Till the technology is made available the next best thing to mitigate the effects of rising temperatures is early warning systems. This is exactly what the Indian environment minister Bhupender Yadav pointed out while speaking at the UN Secretary-General High-Level Round Table. He made a valid point that the global pace of climate mitigation is not enough to contain the rate of climate change. And that there is an urgent need to acknowledge the impact of natural disasters on the life of people in developing countries. With climate finance still scarce, early warning systems are a must to save people’s lives from natural disasters. The losses are huge in the least developed countries that have no warning systems in place. On its part, India has done a decent job in this respect. It has early warning systems in place for such natural disasters thanks to its concerted efforts towards installing them in the most vulnerable areas which have contained the problem to a large extent.What will be the outcome of the COP27 would be known soon but the developed countries though under pressure due to the Ukraine war must not forget their larger responsibility to fight the problem which is largely their creation.