As Cop26 enters the last 48 hours of scheduled talks, world leaders are urged to help negotiators reach a climate agreement.
Boris Johnson During a brief visit to the summit on Wednesday, where countries are under pressure to increase actions to curb dangerous warming, he urged leaders not to sit idly by, but to talk to negotiators, give them leeway and complete the deal.
Mr. Johnson, he returns London After the visit, I was faced with a call from the chief minister and others Nicola Sturgeon And shadow business secretary Ed Miliband Stay in the last few days of negotiations to drive ambitious results.
His visit came after the British police president issued a first draft of the agreement. Glasgow It urges countries to propose more ambitious emission reduction plans next year until 2030.
The draft also calls for the development of long-term “net zero” plans and climate financing actions to help poorer countries adapt to the effects of global warming and address the losses and damages they will inevitably suffer.
It calls for an accelerated phase-out of coal and fossil fuel subsidies, which is the first time such a UN text, although as the negotiating team considers the draft, it may encounter major resistance in some quarters and it is likely to fail in the negotiation. . Final text.
On Thursday, Denmark and Costa Rica will announce a coalition focused on phasing out oil and gas, and Mr. Johnson said in an interview that he would consider and support the phasing out of hydrocarbons.
On Wednesday, the United States and China issued a statement stating that they will work together to strengthen emissions reduction actions in the 2020s in order to achieve the goals of the Paris climate agreement, limit global warming to “far below” 2C than the pre-industrial level, and pursue efforts. Limit it to 1.5C.
Scientists warn that raising the temperature to 1.5C requires reducing global emissions by 45% by 2030, and reducing total emissions to zero by the middle of this century, but countries’ plans for this decade have derailed the world.
This week’s new analysis warns that the current plan to 2030 puts the world on a track of 2.4 degrees Celsius, which is much higher than the international agreement in the Paris Agreement to limit the temperature rise to “far below” 2 degrees Celsius and try to limit it. Target at 1.5 degrees Celsius.
As Glasgow has failed to close the gap, the pressure for countries now is to reach an agreement to ensure that they take more action in the 2020s and make the 1.5C target within reach.
