PARIS — One month out from the COP26 climate summit, world leaders are under unprecedented pressure to decarbonize their economies and chart humanity’s path away from catastrophic global warming. With a little over 1C of warming so far, the two years since the last UN climate summit have seen record-shattering wildfires in Australia and the US, tarmac-melting heatwaves in North America and Siberia, and massive flooding in Southeast Asia, Africa and Northern Europe. ‘Trust deficit’The Paris deal requires nations to renew their plans to cut domestic emissions — known as national determined contributions, or NDCs — every five years. Essop said there was a huge “trust deficit” between nations already battling climate change and the historic emitters that helped to cause it. A G20 summit in Rome days before COP26, during which Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi said he would push for members to commit to 1.5C, could also prove influential.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer October 04, 2021 03:22 UTC