The Serious Game of Eco-Politics: Playing with the Global Environment Part l

Many inhabitants on the planet earth do not realize how perilous  and dangerously  close we are to total annihilation of the planet. The Protocols of the International Agreement of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change(UNFCC) has concluded that our home planet, earth is within 2 degrees Celsius of seeing some of the most monumental disastrous calamities of historical proportions occur due to uncontrollable phenomenal weather events ever . The UNFCC created a group of nations and parties to convene to annually look  at just how close we are in reaching that "point of no return" and  and measure them. The experts and scientific community have agreed that it is vital to human survival that we maintain the earth's climate less another increase of just 2 degrees Celsius. 

From the UNFCC , the committee that sees over these climate changes, the COP (Conference of the Parties) was created . This year in November 2016 the 22nd meeting of the COP will convene as the COP22 in Marrakesh, Morocco. Here the member states which were initially just 18 nations of the current 197 that have signed the Paris Accord will again meet to determine the earth's ecological and environmental status and how to meet the challenge of keeping us all alive.

Within the UNFCC is also the IPC or International Panel for Climate Change, which states that GHG(Green House Gases) have increased by 70 % in the last 40 years than the last 6000 years of recorded history! The UNFCC is primarily focusing on mitigating the circumstances via a "mitigation policy", however we need to investigate all possible causes whether it is the exponential growth of the population, the industrial revolution, no national or international "Green policies" or sanctions on pollution and polluters or the entire paradigm as we exist in supported   by the social and economic  order today. The UNFCC with the advice of the IPC has suggested that sustainability of adequate human conditions are in great harm if the temperature of the planet increases by  just 2 degrees Celsius further if this is not maintained at this level by the year 2020.

Thus, there is a major global focus and emphasis on the year 2020 in many global policies occurring. These include the Paris Accord(Agreement) reached in 2016, The Kyoto Protocol, and COP22 recommendations. Concurrently we are seeing the rise of economic policies that may challenge environmental policies such as greater and faster rates of developing countries that are increasing their emissions of carbon at such a rapid rate that can not be adequately measured or sanctioned by a global policy. New economic groups and trade policies such as the TPP(Trans Pacific Partnership, the BRICS(Brazil, Russia, India, China, South America) , the AIIB(Asian Infrastructure and Investment Bank) , SOC, and ASEAN are shifting trade policy based on financial wealth, growth and population particular from the far eastern nations. 

It is very doubtful that "cap-and trade" , trade sanctions , population control or the use of alternative fuels are adequately satisfying the condition to limit the rise in temperature at an acceptable. Neither wind, solar or hydro power , though  considered renewable are not attractive enough to corporations and nations because they are cumbersome to build and maintain and most importantly they can not turn a big profit as current fossil fuels.

Another part of the struggle of achieving the goal of  preventing a 2 degrees Celsius  rise and maintaining it is that many developing nations are dissatisfied with the outcome that they will be "taxed"  just as very advanced developed states which are the greater polluters. This has caused some resentment of this united effort to fairly approach the problem equitably due to the disproportionate emissions over them being just a partner-state and co-signee of the Paris Accords. Many of these under-developed countries are greatly impoverished and in debt by many of the same economic and trade policies that are competing with the environmental policies. 

Dr. Marcus Wells is a medical doctor that has worked for the U.S. Health and Human Services and the U.S. Public Health Service. He has served as a government scientist at the U.S. National Institutes of Health. Dr. Wells has a Master's in Public Health from Emory University with special emphasis in both Environmental Health and Occupational Medicine