Strengthening the fight against global warming and its destructive effects, concreting and expanding aid to the most vulnerable: representatives from nearly 200 countries will meet in Bonn from Monday to give strength to the next climate conference in November in Egypt.
Six months after COP26 in Glasgow, which reaffirmed the ambition – so far unattainable – to limit global warming to 1.5 ° C when we are at 1.1 ° C since humanity started burning gas and oil at the end of the industry. of the 19th centurye century, it intermediate session Climate negotiations want to maintain the fragile progress of the Scottish conference.
Since then, the world has been shaken by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and its effects on energy and food markets.
We need decisions and actions now and it is the duty of all nations to make progress in Bonnlaunched before the meeting the Mexican Patricia Espinosa, patroness ofUN-klima, a German city -based agency.
Because key points remain pending several months before the next COP27, from November 7 to 18 in Sharm el-Sheikh, a seaside resort on the Red Sea, starting with reducing greenhouse gas emissions, which are responsible for global warming. .
The agreement graduates in Glasgow called on countries to revisit and strengthen their goals for you line them up along with the Paris agreement by the end of 2022. This agreement, a key stone in the fight against climate change, is aimed at contains the global average temperature rise to less than 2 ° C above pre -industry levels and if possible at 1.5 ° C.
However, many countries are no longer fulfilling their current promises … which in themselves however is abandoning the goals of Paris can not be reached according to climate experts from IPCC.
They estimate that the world is currently on a catastrophic warming trajectory of 2.7 ° C. And few have submitted new quantified commitments.
Therefore, it was necessary to restart the machine so that the COP in Sharm el-Sheikh could rule, as Mrs Espinosa wished, in bold and concrete steps, supported by specific plans, to achieve the urgent and climate change ambitions needed before it is too late.
Because there is for now a disconnect between the scientific evidence of a looming global crisis, with unimaginable climate effects, and the lack of actionlamented Johan Rockström, director of the Institute for Research on the Impact of Climate Change in Potsdam (PIK).
International unity
Another burning issue on the table in Bonn, aid from rich countries, often the largest historical emitters, the poorest, the smallest responsible for global warming, but often on the front line of its effects.
The promise to help them address the challenges of climate change worth $ 100 billion per year by 2020 is still not being fulfilled. And faced with the spread of drought, floods and fires or the irreversible rise of the oceans, it is a matter of specific funding for loss and damage suffered is now on the table.
In Glasgow, the wealthy country blocked this request and eventually found a compromise in creating a framework for dialogue until 2024 for discuss the terms and conditions for funding.
But mistrust remains. Bonn shouldn’t be just a discussion boardwarned the Alliance of Small Island States, asking to leave along a clear vision of when and how [sera appliqué] specific funds for loss and damage.
Magnus Benzie, a researcher from the Stockholm Environment Institute, considers it important that the parties come up with a global response: We need to link the systematic risks facing the world, including the looming global food crisis due to climate changeand where the conflict in Ukraine gave the initial flavor. But we missed this opportunity, only asking the question of adaptation through the prism of “we” or “them”.
Source: Radio-Canada
