Assistance to leading countries in action is seen as a ‘death sentence’ by those most at risk

After India and China changed the last-minute terms, about 200 countries agreed on a climate agreement that could help avoid global warming, but failed to meet the Paris climate agreement goals.

At a time when many people are frustrated by global warming – with protesters outside the site daily – the Glasgow conference sometimes seemed close to collapsing as countries debated over the use of fossil fuels, the creation of new carbon markets, and the loss of revenue. to rich countries to poor.

The geopolitical drama provided a welcome opportunity, as countries resolved their differences in terms of the 2015 climate agreement in Paris that would enable the treaty to operate and be implemented, for example by the standards in which countries express their emissions.

However, it does not plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in order to meet the Paris agreement, which aims to reduce global warming to below 2C from pre-industrial times, and to 1.5C. The temperature has already risen 1.1C at the time.

Professor Johan Rockström, director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany, described the conference as “progressive.”

We came to Glasgow knowing science, and every nation had to connect to 1.5C, and we never got there.

It helped to change the global trend from 2.7C expected temperatures, to about 1.8C or 1.9C, if all global targets were met, FT told.

“This is probably the COP meeting, after Paris, which has been very helpful,” said Rockström, referring to the manifesto and the inclusion of the “real world” on the sidelines of the conference.

“On the other hand, as a scientist, I’m also frustrated. We came to Glasgow with the knowledge of science, and each nation had to adapt to 1.5C, and we never got there. “

The two-week conference, attended by more than 30,000 people from around the world, was the largest event since the Covid-19 epidemic began. (UK decided to reduce the program because of Covid-19, although health measures are still in place.)

As the leaders of the 120 nations – including US President Joe Biden – descended on Glasgow for the opening days of COP26, the first week was marked by leaders’ speeches, high-level promises, and side agreements.

The most important of these was US-led “Methane Pledge”, as more than 100 countries have pledged to reduce methane, a very hot gas.

However difficult technical discussions began to heat up in the second week of the conference.

For years, the countries that signed the Paris agreement have been at loggerheads over how to apply and have failed to ratify the rules in the former Cops.

While ideas were tarnished within the second week, some doubted whether the Glasgow Cop would be the equivalent of a conference that failed in Copenhagen in 2009.

Countries have found that they are reviving old conflicts, for example over whether rich and poor countries should report air pollution in the same way.

Signs of victory came Wednesday evening, when a The US and China announced a joint venture and expressed their intention to support the final agreement, as their representatives, John Kerry and Xie Zhenhua, agreed to the joint agreement.

China’s status was monitored by the COP after President Xi Jinping joined other world leaders at the inauguration, before leaving Beijing since the outbreak.

But in the last minutes of the meeting on Saturday evening, India and China did something strange weakening the tongue on coals and burning oil.

An agreement was reached on a promise to end the “ground” instead of removing coal, although the smaller island nations were not happy with the change.

The British President of COP26 Alok Sharma said he was “deeply saddened” by the situation, but urged countries to ratify the treaty for fear that everything might work out, with tears in his eyes.

The affected period was accompanied by a round of applause from the convened ministers, who accepted the documents and changed them.

The US defended the change in coal language as a necessary part of the agreement.

We have 98 months to reduce global gas emissions by half. The difference between 1.5C and 2C is the death penalty for us.

Sharma, speaking at a press conference, criticized the exhaustion for his time of thought on the podium, but admitted that he was “disappointed” by the last-minute change in the text. He said: “Anyone who has seen the images can decide for me how I felt.

Since the barriers of the epidemic are escalating political conflicts, the meeting was occasional the unexpected happens never, delayed from 2020.

Laurence Tubiana, chief of the European Climate Foundation, and co-founder of the 2015 Paris agreement, said the COP26 conference represented “progress”.

Having a “legal document” of the Paris climate agreement at the end of the agreement was “very good,” he said, in order for the agreement to be fulfilled. He says: “It shows the influence of peer pressure. However, countries need to improve their emissions, he said.

The Glasgow Convention includes a call for countries to reconsider their plans to produce 2030 emissions by the end of next year.

As the conference drew to a close, several insecure countries and small islands expressed “deep frustration”.

Aminath Shauna, the environment minister in the lower Maldives, said the agreement did not bring “hope”, noting that large emitters did not cut enough air to reduce temperatures to 1.5C.

“We have 98 months to reduce global gas emissions by half,” he said. “The difference between 1.5C and 2C is the death penalty for us.”

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