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Holidays 28 January 2026

🌲International Reducing CO2 Emissions Day🌲

As climate change continues to impact our world, humans are experiencing (and contributing to) the effects of degradation on the planet. But the situation doesn’t have to be hopeless!

If each person can simply make more of an effort to reduce their carbon footprint and CO2 emissions, even just by a little bit every day, it will help to make the world a safer and more sustainable place to live, both now and tomorrow for the future generations.

International Reducing CO2 Emissions Day is here to act as a reminder and motivator for each person to make better use of the resources we have been given.

🌲History of International Reducing CO2 Emissions Day🌲

The awareness of the need to reduce greenhouse gas or CO2 emissions has been on the radar of scientists for more than 150 years.

Back in 1856, American scientist Eunice Newton Foote predicted that changes in the atmosphere of gas could potentially alter the temperature of the earth’s surface.

Then in 1896, Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius made an even more quantitative prediction of global warming, and five years later the term “greenhouse effect” was coined by Nils Gustaf Ekholm.

By 1938, a scientist named Guy Callendar made the connection that the increase in CO2 emissions was related to global warming and climate change.

In fact, this was also related to research that had been done all the way back in 1824 when Joseph Fourier calculated that a planet the size of Earth in its positional relationship to the sun should actually be much colder than it was at the time, suggesting that there must be some sort of insulation or “blanket” that kept the Earth warmer.

As scientists continue to study the impact of the greenhouse effect and loss of the ozone layer on the planet, more evidence has been revealed of global warming, including rising sea levels, increased drought, severe wildfires, declining water supplies and much more.

When the Kyoto Protocol was signed in 1997, it was a sign of movement in the right direction toward the reduction of greenhouse gasses from industrialized countries. Still, it hasn’t been enough to slow down the rate fast enough.

Later, as the Paris Agreement was adopted in 2015, it legally bound 196 different countries in a commitment to limit global warming by reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

The goal is to achieve a climate neutral planet by the middle of the 21st century.

International Reducing CO2 Emissions Day is here to raise awareness about and encourage people all over the world to do their part in taking care of the environment and the planet by reducing their carbon footprint.

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