Britain’s Alok Sharma has also said that “the gap in ambition” of countries “has narrowed.” “We are not where we should be, not even close,” said Frans Timmermans, the representative of the European Commission.
The president of the COP26, the British Alok Sharma, has admitted this Tuesday that, although progress has been made, “there is still a mountain to climb” to reach an agreement at this climate summit that allows the objective of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees this century to be kept viable.
The former minister has said that “the gap in ambition” of the countries “has been shortened”, but “what the world now needs is the confidence that the execution will be carried out and that the promises will be kept.”
Sharma has advanced that a second will be published on Wednesday draft of the political document (called “cover decision”) that should mark the future course of the multilateral fight against climate change, with a view to agreeing on a final text before the closing of the conference on Glasgow (Scotland) on Friday.
The Vice President of the European Commission (EC) for the Green Deal, Frans Timmermans, has assured that despite the “promising declarations” of the countries, the world is not yet “not even close” to the objective of preventing temperatures from not increasing more than 1.5 ºC by the end of the century.
“We are not where we should be, not even close. We are moving in the right direction, yes, but the world is still very far from the goal of 1.5 ° C,” said Timmermans in his speech to the COP26 plenary.
For their part, the Group of 77 and China (G77 + China), which gives voice to a large part of the world’s developing countries, have demanded that rich nations increase their climate ambition and aid to combat the consequences of warming global.
Responding to the climate emergency is a shared responsibility, but each country must modulate its contributions according to its “national circumstances” and according to a principle of “justice and equity”, he said. Ahmadou Sebory, climate envoy of the Republic of Guinea, who holds the rotating presidency of the group.
The spokesperson for the G77 + China, which includes much of Latin America, Africa and South Asia, has urged the developed world to “deliver on its promises” and reach the goal of mobilizing $ 100 billion a year in climate finance.
The Russian Deputy Prime Minister, Alexey Overchuk, has demanded that “there is no discrimination” in the access of countries to technology and financing that will allow the transition to clean energy.
Finally, the Scottish Police have arrested 16 people in a climatic manifestation convened within the framework of the climate summit and that supposedly had the objective of boycotting a meeting of executives from various companies in protest against ‘fracking’.
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