Climate Governance Integrity

  By : Abraham Sumalinog Latest Climate Change Issues in Korea A sounding almost ninety percent of climate scientists agreed that climate change is indeed happening. The consensus of climate change's truth and its adverse impacts do not take sides as it is being experienced by all people globally but in varying degrees. In South Korea, the most apparent impacts of climate change are the erratic changes in weather conditions, [1] including the unusual torrential rains and stronger storms, rising temperature and heatwaves, a regional adaptation of plants and fruit trees, dryer season that intensify forest fires, rising seawater levels, and water shortage, among other obvious signs. The untimely climate change crisis is due to the emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG [2] ). Among those gases, carbon dioxide contributes an immense amount to the greenhouse effects, mainly caused by anthropogenic activities. We, human beings, are the culprits responsible for the devastating impacts ...