maintain expectations about the Paris Agreement

maintain expectations about the Paris Agreement

However, he clarified: “We cannot just base ourselves on that fact, it has to be seen with which proposal the Chinese delegates are going to COP26.”

For Chinese activist Ma Jun, director of the Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs, a Beijing-based NGO, having signed three major commitments in the past year, China may not have any more concessions to offer.

At this year’s UN General Assembly, Beijing stunned by announcing its goal of reaching carbon neutrality by 2060 and replacing its energy consumption with 25% renewable energy by 2030; both were officially compromised yesterday at the UN.

It also announced that it will stop financing coal plants abroad, although without specifying dates.

For Ma Jun, the important thing is that at this summit a balance is made and the agreements reached are consolidated. “It is not enough to put these (commitments) on paper. We have to translate them into solid actions,” he said on a news portal.

“There will be steps forward, the question is always whether it will be enough. This year the US has joined the balance plate that is inclined to take concrete measures to combat climate change, so we understand that this will generate changes In recent years, we had a country that was actually slowing down and boycotting all these processes, “he said.

The United States, under the Presidency of Barack Obama, promoted the signing of the Paris Agreement in 2015 but during the government of Donald Trump, a climate change denier, withdrew from the agreement.

The truth is that the absence of the main leaders or the light positions of others generates an impact on others.

“At COP26 nothing will be defined and the issues will be kicked for later”, He opined, from Greenpeace, who stressed that the important thing about this appointment, in the first place, is that the talks are resumed, after a two-year pause due to the pandemic and the taste of little left by the COP25 of 2019 in Madrid.

Part of the discussions will focus on the $ 100 billion fund that rich countries promised to finance developing countries in their adaptation to a more sustainable economic and social model, along with the creation of a market for carbon in which countries and companies can buy and sell emission permits.

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