ON CAMPUS
WRITER: Antxon Hauet President, CEMS Club Barcelona
Four CEMS schools investigate innovative solutions to mitigate climate change The anthropologic origin of climate change cannot be refuted anymore. The scientific evidence that has been collected throughout the last decade is unanimous: greenhouse gas emissions have to be significantly reduced within the next decade in order to limit the damages induced by climate change. It is moreover a serious threat for the business world, because it impulses massive migration flows, political instabilities, economic slowdown and general risks increases. Conscious of those risks, and even though it was still controversial at the time, the United Nations members ratified the “United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change" at the UN Conference on Environment and Development of Rio de Janeiro in 1992.
CEMS students at the 2010 UNFCCC Negotiation Simulation
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The UNFCCC has since then been the reference framework for negotiation on climate change and led since then to the ratification of the Kyoto Protocol in 1997. Its members meet once a year in the Conferences of the Parties (COP) to evaluate the progress made and try to establish a legally binding regulation framework in order to limit the effect of anthropologic activity on the climate.