On the last evening of COP26, the 200 countries reached an agreement to accelerate the fight against global warming, without ensuring that it is contained at 1.5 ° C or responding to requests for assistance from poor countries. Dubbed the “Glasgow Climate Pact”, the text was adopted after two weeks of grueling negotiations.
The 200 countries of the COP26 adopted an agreement on Saturday to accelerate the fight against global warming, without ensuring to contain it at 1.5 ° C or respond to requests for assistance from poor countries. Dubbed the “Glasgow Climate Pact”, the text was adopted after two weeks of trying negotiations, with a hammer blow from the British President of the World Climate Conference, Alok Sharma. Witnessing the difficulty in reaching this agreement, the president of COP26 said in a voice moved and with tears in his eyes “deeply sorry” for last minute changes introduced on the issue of fossil fuels at the request of China and India. He had earlier estimated that the agreement “inaugurates a decade of growing ambition” in the area of climate.
The compromise does not respect the Paris agreement
On the critical point of limiting temperatures, while the planet is according to the UN on a “catastrophic” trajectory of warming of 2.7 ° C compared to the pre-industrial era, the text calls on member states to raise their reduction commitments more regularly than foreseen in the Paris agreement, starting in 2022. But with the possibility of adjustments for “particular national circumstances”, a point which has aroused criticism from NGOs on the real ambitions of the text. Moreover, the compromise found does not ensure compliance with the objectives of the Paris Agreement, limiting warming “well below” 2 ° C and if possible to 1.5 ° C.
But it offers prospects for the British presidency to show success in its goal of seeing Glasgow “keep 1.5 alive”. Experts regularly warn that “every tenth of a degree counts” while disasters linked to climate change are already increasing: floods, droughts or heat waves, with their attendant damage and victims.
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