It happened – the first two days in Cop26

Cop 26

During the opening ceremony of the Climate Summit on Monday, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres delivered a speech in which he described how important it is that the Climate Summit results in measures to achieve the 1.5 degree target.

“The research is over. We know what we need to do. The first goal is to keep it 1.5 degrees alive. This means higher ambitions for migration and quick concrete steps to reduce emissions by 45% by 2030, ”he said:

“Either we stop – or it stops us. We dig our graves.

The leaders of the G20 countries are also 1.5 degrees behind the target. In a statement released after the summit in Rome this weekend, the nations agreed on a new global goal.

At the opening ceremony The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Boris Johnson has announced that the United Kingdom will launch the Green Climate Initiative, in which they will invest approximately SEK 35 million over five years in green technology and sustainable infrastructure projects in developing countries.

On Monday evening, the first big deal of the climate summit came. More than 100 countries have pledged to end deforestation before 2030. Forests are considered to be an important factor in reducing carbon dioxide emissions.

Canada, Brazil, Russia, China, Indonesia and Congo have said they will sign the agreement. According to Reuters, more than 100 countries own 85 percent of the world’s forests.

Sweden has also signed the declaration, but Prime Minister Stephen Lofven says Swedish coal is sinking and growing.

“Swedish forestry means we use the forest. But the forest is growing, our forest is growing, and it has been doing that for 100 years, ”he told a news conference in Glasgow.

The main objective of the Climate Summit Member states have pledged to drastically reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 2030 so that the climate becomes more neutral by 2050. Both the European Union and the United States have signed their National Climate Plans (NDCs) in English. . According to the Paris Agreement from 2015, all countries will submit updated climate plans before the meeting.

India, which did not submit the updated climate plan before the meeting, yesterday promised that the climate would be neutral by 2070, thus missing the 20-year target. At the same time, China has announced plans to reach its goal by 2060. These countries rank fourth and first on the world’s list of carbon dioxide emissions, respectively.

Tuesday came the next day Key agreements signed by more than 80 countries worldwide to reduce methane emissions by 30 percent by 2030.

European Commission President Ursula van der Laden told the BBC that reducing methane emissions by 1.5 degrees was “one of the best things we can do.”

Elin Swanberg