The third vice president of the Government of Spain and Minister for the Ecological Transition, Teresa Ribera, told Efe this Saturday at the COP26 that the new version of the Glasgow climate summit agreement “is very powerful on the mitigation side.”
Ribera declared at the entrance of the plenary session of the summit to be held this Saturday, in the added time of COP26, that the draft of the agreement presented this Saturday by the British presidency is “very powerful in the mitigation part”, since which indicates “how to guarantee future generations that the temperature increase does not exceed 1.5 degrees”.
He added that it is also “very interesting” to see how all the work to be done in “increasing resources to ensure an effective response to adaptation needs in developing countries” takes shape.
However, he pointed out that “it is true that there are still points of tension about how far and how each one should go” and acknowledged that these complaints will be heard in the plenary of ministers this afternoon.
Ribera thanked the British presidency for “the willingness to make it clear that this marks a milestone” by supporting “the progressive disappearance of coal”, in addition to “the progressive disappearance of fossil fuel subsidies” and the “commitment of all countries on that agenda ”.
The Spanish minister underlined that the great difference in the new draft of the Glasgow agreement is that it is clear that the time of the change of cycle has arrived, “no longer in a political statement by a few leaders, but in an official document of the United Nations”.
He concluded that this fact “is extremely interesting” which “has generated some tensions or some concerns”, although this transition “has little return now.”
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