COP26: summit approves agreement that keeps the objective of limiting global warming alive

The climate summit of the HIM-HER-IT, better known as the COP26, has approved this Saturday a decisive agreement to keep alive the goal of limiting global warming by 1.5 degrees by 2100 with respect to pre-industrial levels.

In a dramatic finale, the conference president, Alok Sharma, announced that the Glasgow Climate Pact it is approved, after India introduced at the last minute and unexpectedly a change that moves away from the end of coal as a source of energy.

Sharma himself had to interrupt his words twice as he could not avoid tears for the alteration and apologized for “How the process has developed”.

The Indian amendment was approved by the rest of the countries, very reluctantly, to prevent the negotiations from breaking down and reaping a failure of historic dimensions.

India succeeded in making the allusion to “Phasing out” of coal became a “Progressive reduction”, despite the fact that the text contained the great novelty of referring for the first time to the need to end fossil fuels, a point that provoked the greatest rejections in the last hours of the negotiation.

The agreement accelerates action against climate change and urges countries to raise their emission reduction targets during this same decade, although it recognizes that countries have “Common but differentiated responsibilities”.

The text recognizes that limiting warming to 1.5 ° C requires “Rapid, deep and sustained reductions in global greenhouse gas emissions, including a 45% reduction in carbon dioxide emissions by 2030 relative to the 2010 level.”

Regarding financing for developing countries, one of the points that has raised the most differences, the Glasgow Climate Pact urges rich states to double “As minimum” its contribution to the adaptation of the most disadvantaged countries before 2025 compared to 2019 levels.

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