Young with India Will have to “prove” that they are Glasgow According to Chairman Cop26, Pact’s coal promises will be downplayed.
Critics say that Glasgow’s goal is to keep the global temperature at 1.5 degrees Celsius or lower than the pre-industrial level, and is in “intensive care” after the wording sparked controversy.
but Alok Sharma It insisted that the two-week summit, which closed on Saturday after requiring more than 24 hours of extra time, “kept 1.5 degrees Celsius within reach.”
The former Secretary of Commerce admitted that after investing time in the past two years to understand the global impact of climate change, the last few hours proved to be “emotional.”
At the last plenary meeting that lasted several hours, Mr. Sharma almost shed tears on several occasions, including he apologized to the delegates for changing the wording of the agreement on fossil fuels in the 11th hour.
After China took the lead and received support from India, the decision to change the wording from accelerating “phasing out” unabated coal to “gradual reduction” triggered an angry response from Europe and fragile countries.
The summit chairman, Mr. Sharma, said that it was the “first time” to include coal pledges in the UN climate text, but he admitted that he wanted to make the pledges even further.
He told the BBC’s Andrew Mar show that China and India will have to “explain themselves” because representatives of countries most likely to face rising sea levels and changing weather patterns expressed “disappointment” at the summit.
On Sunday’s show, Mr. Sharma added in an interview with Sky News’ Trevor Phillips: “Yes, I certainly want to make sure that we keep’phasing out’ instead of changing the wording Change to “gradual reduction”, but in the process of gradual implementation, you must gradually reduce.
“But, of course, in the end, what we need to make sure is that we continue to work on this agreement, these commitments, and the coal issue. China and India will have to justify it to some of the most climate-susceptible countries. What happened to the country? .”
When asked whether his emotional response to the coal language change was an admission of failure, Mr. Sharma told the BBC: “I will not describe what we did yesterday as a failure-this is a historic achievement.”
He welcomed all countries to review and strengthen their 2030 national climate action goals and the agreement on the annual “high-level” ministerial meeting to address emissions before the end of 2022, because he urged countries to “fulfill the commitments they have made.” “In Glasgow.
But the final agreement was criticized, and the shadow commerce and energy minister Ed Miliband The warning states that “to be frank, maintain a temperature of 1.5 degrees in intensive care”, there is a “gulf” between the agreement reached in Scotland and the measures that still need to be taken to reduce emissions.
The former Labour Party leader told Trevor Phillips: “The world’s mission is to halve global emissions within the next ten years, that is, by 2030, this is what scientists tell us to maintain 1.5 degrees and the truth about Glasgow. , Although some progress has been made, that is to say, the world may have only achieved 20% or 25% of its goal.”
However, Patricia Espinosa, head of climate change at the United Nations, supported Mr. Sharma’s assessment of the meeting and told Andrew Marr to limit the temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius after the summit. The goal “definitely exists.”
The meeting also reached consensus on key parts of the “Paris Rulebook”, which deal with the establishment of a carbon market and the transparency of actions that countries are taking, which have been prominent since the climate treaty was reached in 2015.
The final decision was made after two weeks of negotiations, when 120 world leaders attended the summit.
As part of the efforts to promote the “real world” climate, the state and companies announced a series of agreements on reducing methane emissions, curbing deforestation, switching to electric vehicles, promoting clean technology investment, and phasing out coal power while formal negotiations.
