United Nations – With China leading the road by announcing the first emissions discounts, world leaders said on Wednesday that they were getting more dangerous to combating climate change and the deadly killer weather that comes with it.
At the United Nations high -level climate summit, Chinese President Xi Jinping announced that the world’s largest polluting country will aim to reduce emissions by 7 % to 10 % by 2035. China produces More than 31 % of the world’s carbon dioxide emissionsAnd they have been going on for a long time.
This announcement came with more than 100 world leaders gathered to talk about increasing urgency and the need for stronger efforts to reduce the inscription of heat besieged gases.
With major international negotiations in Brazil 6 weeks away, United Nations Secretary -General Antonio Guterres held a special leadership summit on Wednesday during the General Assembly to focus on specific plans to reduce emissions of coal, oil and natural gas.
After more than six hours of speeches, promises and advertisements, about 100 countries-responsible for about two thirds of the world’s emissions-gave plans or a kind of obligations to increase fossil fuel emissions and combat climate change.
In the video address, Xi pledged that China would increase its solar power and solar energy six times than the levels of 2020, making pollution -free vehicles prevailing and “creating a climate adaptive community mainly”.
Then Europe followed the new climate fighting plan, less detailed, not completely official. Ursula von der Lin, head of the European Commission, said last week, the member states agreed that its goals in reducing emissions will range between 66 % and 72 %. The European Union will officially send its plan before the November negotiations.
Jake Schmidt, the first strategic director of the International Climate at the Council of Defense of Natural Resources, said that while the new promises are in the right direction and shows a stronger commitment to the fighter climate change, “These goals will not be sufficient to maintain our safety from the destruction of the climate.”
The leader of Xi and Brazil also made statements on Wednesday afternoon, which may have indicated to US President Donald Trump The attacks a day before renewable energy and the concept of climate change. “While some countries behave against it, the international community should continue to focus on the right direction,” she said.
“No one is safe from the impact of climate change. The walls on the border will not stop dehydration or storms,” ​​said Brazilian President Luiz Inosio Lula da Silva, who hosts the next climate conference. “Nature does not bow to bombs or warships. There is no country standing above another.”
“Science requires a procedure,” Guterres said. “The economy is forced. The economy forces it. People claim it,” Guterres said.
The head of the Marshall Islands Hilda Hein said that there was a release “we asked all of us to wake up from a society whose hospitals and schools are destroyed” through the high tide. She said that she woke up regularly due to floods and emergency emergencies in her mother’s little island and that she would be close to the role of others.
She said: “If we fail to wake up now and end our dependence on fossil fuels, the leaders of each country in this room will be excluded by calls about the disasters of forest fires, storms, heat waves, hunger and drought.”
Pakistani Prime Minister Mohamed Shehabz Sharif said that his country knew this well, as the recent floods that affected 5 million people in more than 4000 villages, killing more than 1,000.
He said: “While I talk to you, my country is reeling from the rains of severe monsoon, sudden floods, clay collapses and destructive urban floods.” “We are facing this catastrophe at a time when the floods of the 2022 floods are still caused by losses exceeding 30 billion dollars and millions of displaced people are still visible across our land.”
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albaniz launched this decisive nodes of climate, and the Australians said they knew the outcome of the most common and extremist air events such as hurricanes, floods, jungle and drought fires. “Australia knows that we are not alone,” he said.
“It seems that warming is accelerating,” climate scientist Johann Rockstrom said at a scientific conference that started the summit. “Here we must recognize failure. Failure to protect peoples and countries from irreplaceable effects to change the human climate.”
“We are about to feel a basic and irreversible change in it,” said Roxterum.
Catherine Hayo, a technological climate at Texas Catherine Hayu, told the leaders that each degree of temperature is related to exacerbation of floods, forest fires, thermal waves, storms, and many deaths: “What is at stake is no less than everything and every person we love.”
At a press conference, Lula said that he called both Trump and Shi to negotiate the climate in November, saying it is important for the leaders to listen to the scholars.
under 2015 Paris Climate Agreement195 countries are supposed to offer a five -year -old new plans on how to curb carbon emissions from burning coal, oil and natural gas.
UN officials said that the two countries really need to obtain their plans by the end of the month so that the United Nations can calculate how much the land is going to warm the right track if the countries do what they promised. Former US President Joe Biden presented America’s plan late last year before leaving his post and the Trump administration was distanced from the plan.
Before 2015, the world was on the road for 4 degrees Celsius (7.2 ° F) of warming since pre -industry times, but now this has been reduced to 2.6 ° C (4.7 degrees Fahrenheit).
However, the Paris Agreement set a goal to reduce warming 1.5 ° C (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) since the mid -nineteenth century and the world It has already improved about 1.3 ° C (2.3 degrees Fahrenheit) since.
The Chinese plan, Simon Stel, said that the Chinese plan “is a clear indication that the future global economy will work on clean energy. Strong and fastest climatic measures mean more economic growth, jobs, reasonable and safe energy, the most clean air, and better health for all of us, everywhere.”
Lola also praised the declaration of China, but some defenders were surprised, but they said China had a good reputation in climate work and excessive work.
“The climate goal in China is very shy, given the country’s exceptional record on clean energy,” said Juan Manuel Santos, former president of Colombia, The Elders president, said. “China should go further and faster.”
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