NEWS /World Climate Change Day
Today (May 15) we celebrate World Climate Change Day. Climate change is one of the greatest threats to life on our planet. The use of coal, oil, gas, intensive agriculture, deforestation, and many other human activities increase the amount of greenhouse gases in the air. This raises the Earth's temperature, leading to melting polar ice, rising ocean levels, flooding of highly populated lowlands, and the extinction of hundreds of thousands of species that regulate the quality of the environment, on which our physical functioning as organisms depends. Climate Day has been declared by the member states of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, signed on June 5, 1992, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In Bulgaria, the document was ratified in March 1995. In December 2015, at the 21st Conference of the International Community in Paris, a global agreement was signed by 175 countries, including Bulgaria. The goal set out in the Paris Agreement is for all countries to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions to levels that will help limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius. This historic event is a step forward in the fight against climate change.