<
https://reneweconomy.com.au/cop30-climate-talks-open-with-a-plea-for-countries-to-get-along/>
"The COP30 climate summit has opened with the UN climate chief urging countries
to cooperate, as a fracturing international consensus limits efforts to rein in
global warming.
Host country Brazil brokered a deal on the agenda for the two-week summit in
the Amazon city of Belem, deflecting attempts by developing-country negotiating
blocs to shoehorn contentious issues like climate finance and carbon taxes into
the talks.
It was unclear whether countries would aim to negotiate a final agreement for
the end of the event – a hard sell in a year of fractious global politics and
US efforts to obstruct a transition away from fossil fuels.
“In this arena of COP30, your job here is not to fight one another – your job
here is to fight this climate crisis, together,” UN Climate Change executive
secretary Simon Stiell said.
He said three decades of UN climate talks had helped to bend the curve in
projected warming downward.
“But I am not sugar-coating it. We have so much more work to do,” he said.
A new UN analysis of countries’ emissions-cutting plans estimated that global
greenhouse gases would decrease 12 per cent by 2035 from 2019 levels, improving
on an earlier estimate of 10 per cent published last month.
The new figure takes into account the most recent pledges, including those from
China and the EU.
But it was still short of the 60 per cent emissions drop needed by 2035 to
limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial temperatures –
the threshold beyond which scientists say climate change would unleash far more
severe impacts."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
--
mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
