Glasgow Climate Change Conference opens The international community looks forward to implementing emission reduction commitments

Glasgow, England, October 31 (Xinhua) -- The 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change officially opened on October 31 in Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom. This is the first time that the Conference of the Parties will be held after the Paris Agreement has entered the implementation phase, and the international community expects all parties, especially developed countries, to truly implement their emission reduction commitments and take joint actions to effectively cope with the crises and challenges brought about by climate change.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Glasgow Climate Change Conference, which was scheduled to be held in 2020, was postponed for one year. In his opening remarks on the same day, President of the General Assembly, Alok Sharma, said: "The pace of climate change has not been suspended by the outbreak of the new crown epidemic, and our common planet is getting worse... If we act now, together, we can protect our precious planet. ”

In 2015, the Paris Agreement was reached at the Paris Climate Change Conference and became the second legally binding climate agreement under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, following the Kyoto Protocol, to set the stage for global action on climate change after 2020. However, due to deep disagreements, the parties failed to conclude negotiations on the core remaining issues of the implementation rules of the Paris Agreement at subsequent UN climate change conferences.

Therefore, whether the Paris Agreement can be fully and effectively implemented, whether all parties can implement the emission reduction targets they have committed, whether developed countries can fulfill the relevant support for developing countries in terms of financing, technology and capacity building, and whether the world can maintain a multilateral governance model in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and build a fair, reasonable, and win-win global environmental governance system will become the focus of this conference.

"Paris has set its goals and Glasgow must make it a reality." The organizers of the conference said. The Congress was held in Glasgow from 31 October to 12 November. According to the organizers, the conference will hold activities such as the World Leaders' Summit, the first ministerial dialogue on climate finance under the Paris Agreement, and a number of seminars on different topics.

Firmly upholding multilateralism and respecting the strong political signal of multilateral rules, implementing the principles of common but differentiated responsibilities established by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and its Paris Agreement and the institutional arrangement of "nationally determined contributions", and contributing to the response to global climate change on the basis of respecting different national conditions are the common expectations of the international community for this session of the General Assembly.