A Year's Delay & Technical Snarls Not Helping Prospects For Next COP Conference In Glascow

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The international goal to limit global warming seemed far away this week, as the most recent round of United Nations climate negotiations ended with concerns about a lack of progress on key issues like climate financing for developing countries and a global framework for a carbon market, seen as a key tool to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The dearth of results will make it even harder to reach the target of preventing the average global temperature from rising much more than 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit), with time slipping away, said Saleemul Huq, director of the International Center for Climate Change and Development.

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During the technical talks, May 31 to June 17, climate negotiators from developing countries said they aren’t sure their delegations will be able to meet stringent health requirements to travel to Glasgow because of slow vaccine rollouts in their countries. COP26 president Alok Sharma said he continues to plan for an in-person conference, and that the United Kingdom will try to ensure that climate negotiators from developing countries can meet vaccination requirements, but he didn’t provide any details about those plans.

During a press conference ending the talks, Sharma did not seem confident that the goal of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius was still within reach. He said an upcoming global science report, due in August, from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, would help tell the story. “I suspect what we will face is further urgency and the need to go further, faster,” he said.

Sharma’s statements drew criticism from Extinction Rebellion UK, an activist group demanding more immediate action to address global warming and biodiversity collapse. One of its demands is to reach net-zero carbon emissions in the 2020s, rather than in 2050. In a statement, the group said the UK failed to advance climate action by refusing to submit proposals to the UN climate body for cutting emissions more quickly, and by failing to address the International Energy Agency’s call for an immediate moratorium on all new fossil fuel investments.

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https://insideclimatenews.org/news/19062021/un-climate-talks-slowed-by-covid-woes-and-technical-squabbles/

[Mickju]

1. Reaching net-zero emissions in the 2020s is absolutely essential...

... for catastrophe to be averted. Even then it is probably too late. Most people are living in a dreamworld.