UN Secretary-General António Guterres is sounding the alarm given the slow pace of the fight against the climate crisis. “Countries are way off track in terms of meeting their climate pledges and commitments. I see a lack of ambition. A lack of confidence. A lack of support. Lack of cooperation,” Guterres said Thursday in New York. The climate agenda will be undermined.
To meet the 1.5 degree target set in Paris, efforts on all fronts would need to be stepped up significantly, Guterres continued. He went to court particularly clearly with oil companies. The fossil fuel industry is the “polluted heart of the climate crisis” – the use of oil, coal and gas must stop, he demanded.
Interim negotiations for the next UN climate conference in Dubai, which begins at the end of November, will take place in Bonn by the weekend. Environmentalists hope that the UN climate conference in Dubai decides to phase out fossil fuels such as oil and gas quickly, but the trend is moving in the other direction.
Despite serious alarms such as increasing droughts, wildfires and storms, global investment in oil, gas and coal has been increasing for years – to more than a trillion dollars this year, the International Energy Agency estimates.
The world has already warmed up by about 1.1 degrees compared to pre-industrial times. According to World Weather Organization (WMO) calculations, the years 2015 to 2022 were the eight warmest since records began in the 1850s. (sda/dpa)
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