“If we fail in Glasgow, everything will fail.” Are the words of the British Prime Minister Boris Johnson addressed to world leaders in the face of the climate emergency. There are no excuses for not taking action against global warming.
Time is short and urgent to move from promises to actions. Not in vain, the Secretary General of the UN, António Guterres, has defined as “code red for humanity” the latest report of the Intergovernmental Group of Experts on Climate Change and the climate commitments of the countries they are far from meeting the goal of the Paris Agreement that the planet does not warm more than 1.5 degrees compared to pre-industrial levels, as they leave the world on the way to a 2.7 degree warming at the end of this century, according to the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP). “We have to leave COP26 knowing that we comply with the 1.5 degree objective and with the demands of vulnerable countries,” declared Ulargui.
That translates to fewer greenhouse gas emissions and greater financial solidarity with countries that suffer the most from climate impacts. For example, more than 300 civil society organizations (including Amnesty International, Greenpeace, Oxfam, Climate Action Network and WWF) are calling for COP26 to guarantee a financing mechanism for loss and damage for countries most affected by the climate change. climate crisis, such as the small island states of the Pacific.
Another pending issue left by COP25 in Madrid is close the Paris Agreement rule book on carbon markets (that is, countries and companies exchange greenhouse gas emission credits), so that they are designed with real emission reductions in mind that do not depend on offsets and ‘junk credits’. That was the main stumbling block in the negotiations in Madrid and it is a complex issue that could remain in the pipeline.
The president of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, will be in charge of premiering this Monday the first part of the segment high-level conference from the Glasgow Climate Summit. That inaugural session will open the climate summit with the speeches of more than 130 heads of State and Government, and Sánchez will be the first to speak in plenary as he is the leader of the host country of COP25, which took place in Madrid two years ago. .
Greta Thunberg: “We are still moving in the wrong direction”
Climate activist Greta Thunberg lamented this Sunday that the world is still moving in the “wrong direction” to tackle the climate crisis.
“Global emissions are still on the rise. In 2021 it is projected that we will register the second largest increase in emissions so far. That is a clear sign that we are still moving in the wrong direction, “the 18-year-old Swedish girl said in an interview with the BBC.
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