Activist Greta Sandberg Talk about the climate agreement reached by world leaders Glasgow It is “very vague” and leaves the prospect of rising global emissions and the expansion of fossil fuel infrastructure.
nation At the Cop26 meeting, it was agreed to “gradually reduce” the use of coal instead of “phasing out” it. China with India The 18-year-old climate activist stated that the deal “successfully played down nonsense, nonsense, and nonsense”.
The Swedish protester told the BBC Scotland report on Monday: “Unfortunately, the result was as I expected, and many others had expected it. They even successfully played down the nonsense, nonsense, nonsense, which is an amazing thing. Achievement.” .
“There is still no guarantee that we will reach the Paris Agreement. The current text, as a document, you can interpret it in many, many different ways.
“We can still expand the fossil fuel infrastructure, and we can still increase global emissions. This is very, very vague.”
The Glasgow Convention reached at the Cop26 meeting promised countries to take more climate action, and it features historic — if diminished — actions against coal.
The ministers and negotiators at the UN summit agreed to allow countries to strengthen their 2030 emission reduction targets by the end of next year as part of their efforts to limit the dangerous rise above 1.5C.
She welcomed the move to meet more frequently, but warned: “Yes, it’s a good thing that they say they will raise their ambitions more often, and it doesn’t make much sense if they don’t really raise their ambitions, especially It is if they have not achieved this ambition, as they have proven so far.”
The negotiators also signaled the shift of the world’s dirtiest fuel. The agreement called for efforts to accelerate the “phasing out” of unabated coal and the phasing out of inefficient fossil fuel subsidies.
This is the first time that fossil fuels have been mentioned in the Cop deal, and she told the broadcaster this is a “critical step.”
The activist who marched on the streets of Glasgow during the meeting added: “I think many people are surprised to find that we have 26 police officers, and until now we have not mentioned fossil fuels in the documents, and then you start to wonder what they have been doing what.”
After the deal was concluded, Alok Sharma, Chairman of Cop26, almost shed tears at the last several-hour plenary meeting. He said that the summit had achieved the key goal of limiting 1.5C to within reach.
Ms. Thunberg admitted that being chairman of the summit is a “very difficult task” and she “will not exchange my position for his position.”
“He has a huge responsibility. Not only does he have a huge opportunity to create, not to do things well, I understand that this not only falls on one person, but he also has the opportunity to move in the right direction. Let us be honest. Location,” she said.
