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grihalakshmi magazine Published this article page no 74 These reports also form the basis for international climate change negotiations that decide on the responses at the global level. It is these negotiations that have produced the Paris Agreement and previously the Kyoto Protocol. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) It is an intergovernmental body of the United Nations responsible for advancing knowledge on humaninduced climate change. It was established in 1988 by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). Headquarter Geneva Switzerland. Function To provide policymakers with regular assessments of the scientific basis of climate change its impacts and future risks and options for adaptation and mitigation. WetBulb Temperatures is a measure that combines heat and humidity. A wetbulb temperature of 31 degrees Celsius is extremely dangerous for humans while a value of 35 degrees is unsurvivable for more than about six hours even for fit and healthy adults. A resolution at the recent fifth session of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA5.2) held in Nairobi sought to end plastic pollution and forge an international legally binding agreement by 2024. It was hosted by the UN Environment Programme. The resolution will pertain to marine ecosystems as well and will include both binding and voluntary approaches from member states. Need for a binding resolution to limit plastic pollution Plastic production has risen exponentially in the last decades and now amounts to some 400 million tons per year– a figure set to double by 2040. The impacts of plastic production and pollution on the triple planetary crisis of climate change nature loss and pollution are a catastrophe in the making 1. Exposure to plastics can harm human health potentially affecting fertility hormonal metabolic and neurological activity and open burning of plastics contributes to air pollution grihalakshmi magazine buy.
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