Global COP26 climate negotiations are the 'last, best hope' to keep the goal of limiting global warming to 1.5C alive, said summit president Alok Sharma as he opened the meeting on Sunday.
Global COP26 climate negotiations are the "last, best hope" to keep the goal of limiting global warming to 1.5C alive, said summit president Alok Sharma as he opened the meeting on Sunday.
COP26 inherits its central goal from the landmark 2015 Paris Agreement, which saw countries agree to cap global warming at "well below" 2C above pre-industrial levels, and 1.5C if possible. And last week a UN report said even the latest, most ambitious carbon cutting commitments would still lead to "catastrophic" warming of 2.7C."If we act now and we act together we can protect our precious planet," he said.Much rests on commitment from G20 leaders of richer nations -- currently meeting in Rome -- whose economies account for about 80 percent of carbon pollution.
But President Xi Jinping of China, the world's largest emitter, has not left his country during the pandemic and will not be travelling to Glasgow.As things stand "there is a serious risk that Glasgow will not deliver," warned United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in comments to the G20 on Saturday."Unfortunately, this is an illusion."
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