“There is a huge disconnect between climate science and climate policy,” professor Mizan Khan, a climate finance negotiator for Bangladesh, told TRT World
With only two days to go to the scheduled end of the UN climate conference in Glasgow, or COP26, negotiators will be looking to strike a final deal over the coming days.published in the early hours of Wednesday by the UN climate agency will form the basis for the final political decision.
The 2015 Paris Agreement requires parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change - which has near universal membership – to update and boost their NDCs every five years. With scientists warning that the next decade will be crucial to prevent some of the worst effects of climate change, COP26 was the time to step up those ambitions and lay out plans to achieve them.published this week by Climate Action Tracker, the current short-term 2030 targets put the world on track for a 2.
Proposed by COP26’s president Alok Sharma, the statement itself acknowledges the shortfall by calling on countries that have not yet submitted their updated climate goals to “do so as soon as possible” ahead of the next COP in November 2022. The draft published today also “notes with serious concern” that emissions are set to rise 13,7 percent above 2010 levels in 2030 under current pledges and implementation plans.
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