a minute agoWorld record temperatures How is Kosovo and the countries of the region affecting climate change?
Periskopi(3 years ago)
(3 years ago)Since early July this year, records of the world's highest average temperature were broken three times in a week. The new record was set on July 7th, when the world was at 0.31 degrees warmer than in August 2016, when the previous record was set. Among the causes [...]
Among the causes of these high temperatures is the large quantity of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Kosovo and other Western Balkan countries mostly contribute to this amount.
According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration climate agency (NOAA) of the United States of America, the increased amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere causes “the upgrade of global temperature”.
Adding more carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, people have become greenhouse catalyst”, the agency's website says.
Meanwhile, the US National Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA) states that the greenhouse effect is “process that occurs when gases in the Earth's atmosphere are kept in the heat of the sun”, and caused by “the burner's diet, such as coal and oil”.
Although Western Balkan countries are not the biggest carbon dioxide pollutants, they too have contributed to the deterioration of the situation over the years.
CO2 emissions trend in the Western Balkans
Early northern Kosovo has been listed as the third country to issue mostly carbon dioxide in the Western Balkans. Finally, after the start of COVID-19, northern Macedonia has passed Kosovo.
Serbia is the country that issues significantly more carbon dioxide from all countries in the region within a year, followed by Bosnia and Herzegovina and Northern Macedonia.
Annual issue of carbon dioxide in the Western Balkans
According to US International Trade Administration (ITA) data, about 70 per cent of the energy in Serbia is produced by coal. The core problem, according to the United Nations Organisation for Climate Change Convention Framework (UNFCCC), remains the heating system in Serbia.
U n The NFCCC predicts that up-to-date Serbia's heating system would eliminate around 252.270 tonnes of carbon dioxide, labeled during the thirty-year”.
But about 31 million tons of carbon dioxide emitted from Serbia are not much compared to the world's largest pollutants: China, the United States, India and Russia.
Global carbon dioxide issue
According to data from the United Nations Organization (OKB), fuels, such as coal, oil, and gas, are the biggest contributors to climate change, being “responsible for over 75 percent of the global greenhouse gas emissions, and almost 90 percent of the total emissions of CO2).
In Kosovo, about 95 percent of electricity is produced from coal. This addiction remains problematic, as Kosovo aims to be defuelled by 2050, while learning to increase the energy capacity produced by renewable sources to 35 percent by 2031.
