Just two weeks before the climate summit, European Parliament It requires the leadership of the European Union countries and the G20. First of all, assuming more ambitious climate goals of the emissions cut Tailoring CO2 and its contributions at the national level, and second, respecting the commitment to spend $100,000 million a year on climate change. These are some of the demands contained in a resolution adopted by a show of hands at the plenary session of the European Parliament. Climate Change Conference (COP27) Capital of Egypt from 6 to 18 November Sharm El Sheikh and a European parliamentary delegation.
“Despite some progress in global climate action, big gap between announced commitments and climatic reality. Greenhouse gas concentrations continue to rise and human action is driving us a Point of no return”co-rapporteur of the report socialist Javier LopezIt also warns that extreme weather events such as floods, heatwaves or droughts “continue to break records”.
appealing to the European Parliament tougher legislation On climate and biodiversity, he thinks that climate and biodiversity crises are both. great difficulties humanity is facing. The resolution highlights its particular concern about the data published in the UNEP 2021 Emissions Gap Report, which predicts a temperature increase of 2.7°C even if the most ambitious national targets for 2030 are met. The goals of the Paris agreement are to keep global warming below 2 °C and to try to limit it to 1.5 °C.
“Immediate call from the EU and the international community increase in ambitionnew mitigation commitments that allow closing the existing gap; and limit global warming to 1.5ºC. a great one investment Confident that the EU is “decisive”, López says in adaptation, minimizing the negative effects of climate change and achieving greater climate resilience and sustainable development” and “addressing loss and damage, establishing an adequate funding and technical assistance mechanism”. at the next peak. Russian invasion of Ukraine and its repercussions made it more urgent to undertake transformation, if at all possible. world power system.
“Immediate action is imperative in this decade,” the text says, warning that many promises to reduce emissions to zero in the long term are vague and lack transparency. Therefore, both EU countries and G20 members must “take on more ambitious targets” to reduce emissions and comply with funding promises. The EU is the biggest contributor to this struggle, and according to the European Parliament, it should remain so. The funds are reminded that the resolution should begin to be distributed in 2022 and reach an average of $100,000 million annually over the period 2020-2025.