World governments agree in 2015 during a UN summit to try to limit the average global temperature increase to 1.5C, a deal dubbed the Paris Agreement that was seen as a breakthrough in international climate ambition.
SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt – A few countries have resisted mentioning a global goal of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius in the official text of thesummit in Egypt, US Special Climate Envoy John Kerry said at the conference on Saturday, November 12.
“But the fact is that, in Glasgow that was adopted, the language is there. And I know…Egypt doesn’t intend to be the country that hosts a retreat from what was achieved in Glasgow,” Kerry said, referring to last year’s COP summit in Scotland. Greenhouse gas emissions have been rising ever since, however, and scientists say the world risks missing the target without swift and deep cuts. Breaching the 1.5C threshold risks unleashing the worst consequences of global warming.Already, the world has warmed more than 1.1C from the preindustrial average temperature – fueling extreme weather that is already delivering steep economic losses.
Kerry said the United States would not support establishing such a fund, and instead believed existing platforms should be used.
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