VoltThe Glasgow United Nations Climate Conference is postponed: conclusions can only be reached on Saturday afternoon at the earliest. This was announced on Twitter by Camilla Born, an adviser to the Bureau of the British Conference of the Parties. Hours of debate prevented the summit from ending. The plan ends on Friday night.
Now, after a night of further negotiations, the new draft of the final declaration should not be available until around 9 in the morning. There will not be another plenary meeting before 11 am, and then a conclusion will be sought in the afternoon.
Johnson is on the phone with Draghi
The Environmental Protection Association recently warned at the last minute that the final document of the plan was being diluted, called on the federal government to make more efforts, and warned that COP26 should not become an “air number.”
In the evening, when negotiations were stalled, the heads of government of Britain and Italy also reported that Boris Johnson And Mario Draghi, have their say. After the phone call, both said that progress must be made, but so far the states have not made enough commitments to reduce climate-damaging greenhouse gas emissions. They hope to help COP26 reach a positive conclusion “at these critical last moments.”
All meetings of the past few years have been extended to the weekend. At the end of the huge meeting with approximately 40,000 delegates, approximately 200 states must unanimously adopt the final text.
Federal Minister of Environment Svenya Schultz Recently, it has been cautiously optimistic. The Social Democratic Party politician said that good progress has been made at the negotiating table. For the first time in the history of the United Nations Climate Change Conference, there is an opportunity to mention coal elimination in the final text. This is the “paradigm shift.”
Ottmar Edenhofer, director and chief economist of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), complained that in the final draft of the final document discussed, the reference to coal phase-out was downplayed.He told the Rhein Post on Saturday: “In order to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees, we need to phase out fossil fuels globally by 2050. The current draft is dangerous.” At the same time, there is progress. Climate Conference“For example, I hope that after China and the United States join forces, after the climate conference, the ambitious moves of the Group of Industrialized Countries will become possible.”
