Representatives from 200 countries will begin to debate the text to be agreed by the weekend. The draft sets objectives, although none of them are binding.
The draft initial political agreement of the Glasgow climate summit, COP26, asks, for the first time, the countries that phase out carbon and aids the fossil fuels. It also urges the 200 nations participating in the summit to reinforce their plans against climate change by the end of 2022.
The text, released by the British presidency, will be debated in the coming days and must be agreed for the weekend, when the summit is over.
The draft asks countries to “review and reinforce their 2030 targets to align with the temperature goal set in the Paris Agreement by the end of 2022.”
The draft also recalls that under the Paris Agreement they can present “new and more ambitious climate commitments” at any time.
The text “reaffirms the long-term global objective of keeping the average temperature increase below 2 ºC” (objective agreed in Paris), but urges countries to make an effort “to limit it to 1.5ºC”, an increase in temperature that the scientific community has called “disastrous”. Thus, he requests to review the plans since to continue at this rate the warming by 2030 lwould reach 2.4 ºC.
At the same time, COP26 “regrets that the objective of developed countries to mobilize $ 100 billion annual starting in 2020 “and emphasizes the need for” significantly more support “beyond that amount for developing countries to respond to their adaptation needs to the impacts of climate change.
Although the text contains several objectives to advance in the fight against climate change, none of them are binding.
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