At the United Nations, the troika of the current and next two presidents of U.N. climate conferences are telling other leaders to make their required climate-fighting targets much more ambitious. Thursday saw leaders say new national plans should be aligned with the 2015 Paris Agreement goal of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.
A NYPD patrol car parks across the street from the United Nations Headquarters, Saturday Sept. 21, 2024. UNITED NATIONS — A trio of leaders of international climate negotiations on Thursday urged colleagues to step up efforts to fight global warming, but outside groups and endangered nations told those leaders to look in the mirror, take their own advice — and stop pumping out fossil fuels.
“The world is not on track to meet the goals of the Paris agreement,” said Mukhtar Babayev, who takes over as head of international negotiations in November when Azerbaijan hosts the U.N. climate conference. “We face an urgent need to deliver deep, rapid and sustained emissions reduction, including by transitioning away from fossil fuels.”” The nations of the world have a deadline five months away to create new national targets for carbon pollution cuts.
Longtime climate negotiation analysts Alden Meyer of the think tank E3G and Bill Hare, CEO of Climate Analytics, which tracks emissions pledges, said the negotiation chiefs from the UAE, Azerbaijan and Brazil were big on soaring rhetoric, but their own nations’ actions fell far short.
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