The objective would be brought forward by three years, compared to the date provided for in the Paris agreement.
The first draft resolution of COP26 published on Wednesday encourages countries to revise upwards their commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from 2022.
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This text, published by the British Presidency after 10 days of technical and high-level discussions at the Glasgow climate conference, calls on the signatory countries to "review and strengthen their plans (for emission reductions) so as to make them compatible with the warming targets of the Paris Agreement ”, ie a contained warming“ well below ”+ 2 ° C compared to the pre-industrial era and if possible 1.5 ° C.
The fear of a "tipping point"
This 1.5 ° C is in any case the priority displayed for the COP26 in Glasgow.
But more than a totemic figure, what prevents a growing number of specialists from sleeping is the crossing of "tipping points", followed by chain reactions disrupting our planet.
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“Climate tipping points are a game-changer and an existential threat,” explains Tim Lenton of the UK University of Exeter, one of the world's experts on the subject.
“And we must do everything in our power to avoid crossing them.
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Earth's climate is a complex system of interconnected and potentially unstable phenomena.
Like someone swinging in a chair… until they fall backwards.
"A critical threshold beyond which a system is reorganized, often abruptly and / or irreversibly", according to the definition of the UN Group of Climate Experts (IPCC).
"We have already experienced a number of tipping points, for corals or polar ice, and others are likely in the short term given the projections of warming", they warned in a draft report to be published in early 2022 and obtained by AFP.
