It's added to adaptation and mitigation, and there's a responsibility to start to address it. Loss and damage is a provision of the Paris Agreement. It's the impacts that countries are already experiencing, and communities around the world from typhoons and hurricanes to wildfires to floods, other extreme climate impacts, and those impacts are mounting year by year. President Obama's science advisor John Holdren once famously said, we're going to deal with climate change through a mix of three strategies, mitigation, adaptation and suffering, and loss and damage is really the suffering. MYERS: Well, first, let's clarify for people what loss and damage is. The rich nations apparently didn't want a standalone deal on this, so what can be done about it? A lot of talk but so far, not so much action right? India was the one that took the lead, proposing and reading out the revised language on the floor.ĬURWOOD: Hey Alden, let's talk about loss and damage. We're told that China expected others to object to this and get it taken out of the final decision before they even had to have a floor fight and where caught a little unaware.
And we had this drama at the last minute that China and India raised objections to that, and forced revision of the language from phase out to phase down. So phasing out is clearly stronger and that was the original proposal from the UK presidency. MYERS: Well, phasing out implies getting to zero and phasing down means reversing the increase and starting to reduce.
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Read my full statement here on the outcomes of #COP26: /8xSCZA7I10- Alok Sharma November 13, 2021ĬURWOOD: What's the difference between phasing out and phasing down by the way? We have to continue to work together to kept 1.5 alive I am incredibly grateful to everyone who has helped get us here today in Glasgow So having this in there will be important and the key will be what will these countries come back with next year in Egypt in terms of what they're willing to do to start phasing down coal. And of course, we know that countries like China and India are not going to phase down coal entirely by 2030. So we need to start there and you have to remember, at the G20 Leaders Summit, just before the cops started held in Rome, they weren't able to get agreement on saying something about phasing out or phasing down coal. This is the first time in the history of the COPs where there's been a reference to the need to phase down any fossil fuels in the final decision. MYERS: Well, actually, this was a real breakthrough. So at the last minute they yank the cord when it comes to phasing out coal, what needs to happen in the next round of negotiations to deal with coal? Welcome back to Living on Earth Alden!ĬURWOOD: Let's talk about what just happened there. Joining us for an overview of what was accomplished and what’s left to be done is Alden Meyer, a Senior Associate at the think tank E3G. So countries are now tasked to set even more ambitious targets by next year's round of climate talks in Egypt. The current pledges, or nationally determined contributions under the Paris Climate Agreement, would only limit global warming to about 2.4C, which could result in millions of deaths. These talks have been criticized for lack of inclusivity and for hosting more than 500 attendees with links to fossil fuel interests. The COP26 climate negotiations in Glasgow have come to an end leaving much unsolved in terms of how we will limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius by the end of the century. Alden Meyer, a Senior Associate at the think tank E3G, joined Host Steve Curwood to discuss the outcomes of COP26 and look ahead at what's left to be done.īASCOMB: It’s Living on Earth, I’m Bobby Bascomb Most importantly, COP26 failed to establish a fully credible path to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
But there was little progress in efforts to help developing countries cope with the effects of climate change and the talks were widely criticized for their lack of inclusivity.
The COP26 climate talks in Glasgow, Scotland brought mixed results with an agreement to phase down coal, side agreements to cut methane emissions and a rulebook for international carbon trading markets. (Photo: Tim Dennell, Flickr, CC BY-NC 2.0) Protesters were demanding greater action from world leaders on reducing greenhouse gas emissions and addressing the climate catastrophe. The image above was taken at a 4,000 people rally outside Sheffield’s City Hall at the time of COP 26. Youth climate activist Greta Thunberg denounced the climate talks by calling for “no more blah blah blah”.
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