The UNFCCC Paris Agreement (COP 21), ratified by 175 states including the UK and European Union, requires all Parties to put forward their best efforts to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change.

The world has just over a decade to get climate change under control, U.N. scientists say in a new report issued on Monday by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a group of scientists convened by the United Nations to guide world leaders, describes a world of worsening food shortages and wildfires, and a mass die-off of coral reefs as soon as 2040

“It’s like a deafening, piercing smoke alarm going off in the kitchen. We have to put out the fire,” said Erik Solheim, executive director of the U.N. Environment Program. He added that the need to either stop emissions entirely by 2050 or find some way to remove as much carbon dioxide from the air as humans put there “means net zero must be the new global mantra.”

The Government has recognized the risk and the solar rebate along with the 15% target for reduction of energy use through efficiency and conservation set out in the National fuel Policy is a big step in the right direction.