The United Nations climate change summit starts this Sunday in Glasgow with a goal that has already moved from the G20: do not exceed 1.5 degrees of global temperature increase.
The return of the United States is one of the most outstanding news with a great doubt in the air: will the most polluting countries unite? And it remains to be seen if China, the United States, India and Russia They accept a carbon market and an end to fossil fuels.
Environmental groups have come to Glasgow to attend the 26th climate summit. Among them, the Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, who had to be escorted by the police through the crowd.
From Spain comes a group of Ecologists in Action with a clear intention. “We are going to defend that we need the necessary measures to address more drastic reductions“, says Javier Andaluz.
From pre-industrial levels, the planet’s temperature has risen 1.2 degree. The problem is that new government commitments are not enough. At the end of the century we would rise to 2.7 degree. The goal set by the Paris Accords is to limit this increase to 1.5 degrees, sustained in the G20 also held this Sunday.
It will also be important for rich countries to commit to shipping $ 100 billion yearly to the less developed. Ahead of two weeks of encounters with great challenges but also with great absences such as Russia or China, two of the countries that pollute the most.
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