The climate summit has opened on Monday in Glasgow, the aftermath of a G20 marked by the absence of real dynamic on the environmental issue. If no one denies the urgency of the situation, few countries have formulated clear commitments.
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How COP 26, which opened its doors at the top of the leaders, Monday, November 1 in Glasgow, Scotland, will advertise more than 120 heads of state And of government to act radically and immediately against global warming, when the G20, which ended the day before in Rome did not come there? The meeting of the twenty major economic powers of the world has not even failed to agree on a common goal of carbon neutrality in 2050, yet absolutely necessary to hold a warming of 1.5 ° C by the end of the century .
The absence of a dynamic initiated by the G20 is not a very good news for the enormous “Conference of the Parties”, which physically brings together, until 12 November, nearly 30,000, delegates ( representatives of countries) and observers (NGOs), in a sluggish atmosphere. Because his stakes are huge – almost overwhelming: according to his organizers, who followed one another on Monday at the Scottish Event Campus forum, this e COP represents “the last chance”, six years after the agreement History of Paris, to avoid an uncontrolled warming and mortifer of the planet, limiting it to 1.5 ° C.
“race against the watch”
Antonio Guterres, the United Nations Secretary General, calling for immediate and decisive action, because “this COP must act to save humanity. Either we stop global warming, either it’s it who stops us “. “Future generations will not forgive us if we do not do [Glasgow] a success,” said Prime Minister Boris Johnson, a host of the summit, ensuring, in his pictorial way, that “humanity is like James Bond, It is engaged in a race against the watch “facing warming.
Prince Charles called the private sector to get their hands in the pocket, “with truthings, not billions”, to finance the energetic transition to the south, and Mia Mottley, the Premier of Barbados, launched A powerful call to save his stateland, threatened by the rise of waters, such as many other archipelagos: “It can be survived with a warming of 1.5 ° C but 2 ° C, it is a death stop. “
Awareness was palpable in Glasgow: no one denied the urgency of the situation. However, the concrete actions, and required according to the IPCC, which predicts a warming of at least 2.7 ° C by the end of the century in the current state of the country emission reduction commitments (the NDCs , in the UN jargon), still lacked the call on Monday.
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