Reporter | Wang Pinda
On November 5, local time, the 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change held in the United Kingdom entered its fifth day.
U.S. P.S. presidential envoy for climate issues Kerry said $100 billion a year in climate aid from developed countries could be cashed in in advance in 2022; research showed that the world's wealthy needed to drastically cut emissions to meet temperature control targets; Fabius, president of the 2015 Paris climate conference, warned that global warming was expected to be limited to 1.8 degrees Celsius, just a hypothesis; and Sweden's "environmental girl" Greta Thunberg called the climate conference a failure.
U.S. President's special envoy on climate Issues John Kerry said the $100 billion a year in climate assistance pledged by developed countries is expected to be met by 2022.
This is a year earlier than previously expected by developed countries. In late October, the german and Canadian governments prepared a report for the climate conference that developed countries may not be able to deliver on this commitment until 2023.
However, even if developed countries can cash in on aid in 2022, as Kerry said, it will still be 2 years behind the original deadline. At the 2009 Copenhagen climate conference, developed countries pledged to provide $100 billion a year in climate aid to developing countries by 2020.
A new study shows that to meet the Paris Agreement's goal of trying to keep global warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius, the world's wealthy need to drastically reduce emissions.
According to current trends, the per capita carbon emissions of the world's richest 1 percent of the population will still reach 30 times the emissions required by the "1.5 degree Celsius target" by 2030, the study said.
To limit global warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius, global per capita carbon emissions need to be kept below 2.3 tonnes per year. It is estimated that the carbon emissions of the richest 1% of the population will be 70 tons per person per year, while the poorest 50% of the population will emit carbon emissions of 1 ton per person per year.
The International Energy Agency previously reported that if all the commitments made at the Glasgow climate conference are fulfilled, global warming is expected to be controlled below 1.8 degrees Celsius. But Fabius, former French foreign minister and president of the 2015 Paris climate conference, warned that a global warming limit of 1.8 degrees Celsius is "just a hypothesis."
Fabius said he was impressed by the agreements and commitments reached in the first week of the climate conference. However, a global warming limit of 1.8 degrees Celsius is only "theoretical" and will require the full delivery of climate commitments by countries around the world.
Sweden's "environmental girl" Greta Thunberg said in Glasgow, England, where the climate conference is held, that this climate conference is a failure and that drastic emission reduction measures must be taken immediately to curb climate change.
Thunberg said the failure of the climate conference was "no secret" and that the planet was now burning and could not be solved in the same way that it led humanity into a climate crisis.