In particular, the Ex-Prime Minister, the Glasgow Summit must increase the commitments made by the states.
Le Monde with AFP
The former Prime Minister and President of COP21, Laurent Fabius, called, Sunday, October 24, In an interview in the Sunday log To what COP26, which must open on October 31, “an accelerator of action” against global warming.
“The summit of Paris, which I chaired in 2015, became the reference COP; that of Glasgow, in 2021, must be an accelerator of the action. What everyone hopes, specialist or not, this are concrete and relatively short-term results, “he said.
According to him, the Glasgow summit must reach several objectives: review the commitments made by the States, reach progress on the issue of funding, particularly to poor countries, which pollute less than rich countries, and Reflect on the issue of social justice.
“Calamitous procession”
By continuing “with the current slope, this would result in more celebrations, megafeux, floods and famines, more also deforestation and massive and forced human migrations, in short, a calamic procession that will strike everywhere in the World “, he warns.
The COP26 taking place at Glasgow (Scotland) from October 31, and for fifteen days, will try to persuade some of 200 countries to do more to reduce their carbon emissions to contain global warming below. 1.5 ° C in relation to the pre-industrial era, ambitious threshold set in 2015 by the Paris Agreements.
Since the signing of these agreements, the transition to a cleaner economy and energies has progressed, but too slowly to limit warming at 2 ° C, a fortiori at 1.5 ° C, compared with the end of the XIX e century.