The first full day of Conference of the Parties (COP) number 27 since its creation by the UN, it has ended calls by other world leaders to cut emissions that cause the greenhouse effect, at a time when the planet is warming and severe weather events are becoming more frequent and destructive.
Dozens of presidents, prime ministers and kings, as well as thousands of diplomats, negotiators, businessmen, activists and journalists gathered in the Egyptian city of Sharm el Sheikhon the Red Sea, to participate in the discussions, which began yesterday and will last until November 18.
“We live one catastrophe after another. Climate change will never stop if we do not intervene. Our time here is limited and we must make the most of every second,” said the Egyptian president, Abdel Fatah al-Sisiat the beginning of the sessions of the first of days dedicated to the interventions of the nearly 120 world leaders attending.
Earlier, Guterres warned the rulers to fulfill their commitments or “die” by inaction.
“Humanity has a choice: cooperate or die. Either a pact for climate solidarity, or a pact for collective suicide”he stated in his speech.
The UN secretary general assessed that, even in the midst of the Ukraine-Russia war “and other conflicts” it cannot be accepted that “attention is not on climate change, which has its own calendar.”
a gloomy outlook
The summit serves as a stage to evaluate the progress of the commitment adopted by the countries in the iconic COP21 held in France in 2015, of reduce gas emissions to the level necessary to ensure that global warming does not exceed 1.5 to 2 degrees Celsius by the end of the century relative to pre-industrial values.
Experts of the The UN has warned that, with current emission reduction commitments, the planet’s temperature will have risen 2.8 degrees by the end of the century, well above what is stipulated in the Paris Agreement. and levels that they say would be catastrophic for life on Earth.
Beyond the warnings of its secretary general, the UN presented an action plan of more than 3,000 million dollars so that between 2023 and 2027 the entire world population is protected by an early warning system for meteorological disasters.
“Vulnerable communities in sensitive areas are caught by a succession of climatic disasters without any means of preventive warning”Guterres explained.
The sum of the action plan, much smaller, will have to be covered as part of the expected increase in financing for adaptation to climate change, the AFP news agency reported.
As expected, the question of money was the axis of another debate between industrialized and developing countries, basically about contributions to adapt to changes, reduce emissions and eventually pay the inventory of damages and losses, although this time there were also shots fired at the powers.
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USA and China, the targeted
“America and China must respond” to the challengesince the Europeans are “the only ones who pay,” remarked the Frenchman Macron.
Although it was in a meeting with young people, before the plenary, his words made noise in the central meeting.
Chinese President, Xi Jinping will not be at COP27 and the American Joe Biden will only spend a few hours on Friday. Its two countries are the two largest economies and the main polluters on the planet.
After intense negotiations, the member countries of the COP agreed to discuss in Egypt the creation of a specific fund to mitigate the effects of droughts, floods and extreme weather events.
It is not about compensating poor countries, insist the industrialized nations, which are the ones that have historically massively emitted greenhouse gases, responsible for climate change.
Most member countries of the COP, grouped in the G77 currently headed by Pakistan, considers that it is appropriate to talk about compensation and that it must be delivered as soon as possible, but the creation of that fund still seems far away.
The Colombian President, Gustav Petro, one of the few leaders in the region who made the environmental issue one of his lines of action, lamented the “failure” of the climate conferences, called for radical measures to avoid “extinction” of the planet and returned to the UN the central role of what is to come.
Added to the financial issue is the primary concern of cutting greenhouse gas emissions, in a context revolutionized by the energy supply crisis in Europe, due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and the renewed gas boom.
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Since last year, fewer than 30 countries have strengthened their emission reduction targets, despite the common commitment of the almost 200 members of the COP.
The head of the German government, Olaf Scholz, took charge today of that context that draws the war, by ask the participants in COP27 not to lose sight of the objectives in terms of renewable energies.
“There must not be a global revival of fossil fuels,” said the German chancellor in his speech, for whom Russia’s invasion of Ukraine made the switch from fossil fuels to renewable energy a “security policy imperative.” .
He admitted, yes, that Germany it was reviving coal-fired power plants “as a matter of necessity, for a short time” due to the drop in power supply.
And when it comes to contributions, he reviewed that in 2021 Germany provided 5.3 billion euros and is now investing 170 million euros in a “global shield” program that will offer a kind of insurance scheme for poor nations affected by disasters. weather related.
The new British Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, whose country organized the previous COP26 in Glasgow, confirmed, in turn, that the United Kingdom is committing to a climate fund of 13.3 billion dollars and will triple its financing for adaptation to green energies by 2025.
Source: Ambito
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