COP26 summit: U.K. draft decision calls for stronger national climate plans by 2022 – National
The UK, host of the UN climate change summit in Glasgow, on Wednesday launched a draft political resolution, which will probably be negotiated over the following few days, urging international locations to strengthen their nationwide local weather plans by the top of 2022.
The primary draft of the “COP cowl resolution” asks international locations to “revisit and strengthen the 2030 targets of their nationally decided contributions, as essential to align with the Paris Settlement temperature purpose by the top of 2022.”
The draft additionally reminds international locations that underneath the Paris Settlement they’ll submit new, extra bold local weather pledges at any time and for the primary time requires international locations to section out coal and fossil gas subsidies.
It’s being intently watched for what it’d commit international locations to do to bridge the hole between their present local weather targets and the extra bold motion scientists say is required to avert disastrous ranges of warming.
Diplomats from the almost 200 international locations represented at COP26 will hunker down on Wednesday to barter a last textual content they’re all keen to signal when the summit ends this weekend.
Poorer, climate-vulnerable international locations have referred to as for international locations to cap warming at 1.5C — a temperature enhance scientists say is simply in need of calamitous.
The push for extra common critiques of local weather plans is seen as needed as a result of international locations’ present 2030 pledges would result in 2.4C of warming.
The draft, which the UN launched simply earlier than 0600 GMT, additionally calls on international locations to “speed up the phasing-out of coal and subsidies for fossil fuels,” a requirement of local weather change campaigners and “urges” developed international locations to “urgently scale-up” monetary help for creating international locations to reply to their must adapt to the impacts of local weather change.
(Reporting by Valerie Volcovici and Bhargav Acharya; Modifying by Tom Hogue and Gerry Doyle)
