COP23 : The climate urgency

From November 6th to 17th, the United Nations organizes the 23rd international conference about climate change. Taking place in Bonn, Germany, it gathers around 19,000 participants.

Here are the main key facts about the previous conference, COP21:

- Experts estimated the global warming had increased the temperature by +2°C, compared to pre-industrial era. Without any change, they forecast an increase by 4.8°C at the end of this century.

- It is necessary to decrease industrial gas emissions by 40% to brake that rise and to keep the current 2°C.

- 30% of biodiversity could disappear by the end of the century, without stopping the current gas emissions.

- Oceans pH is now 30% more acidic than before industrial era, because of CO2, jeopardising its biodiversity.

- 400 million people living below 1m height from the sea are threatened by rising water.

- 169 countries are engaged in the COP21, to make available 100 billion dollars to solve those problems.

COP23 is a determining conference to make people aware of it and to find solutions at the global scale.

The first conference of Donald Trump, who explained his will to get rid off this agreement, will be full of debate... to be continued !