Glasgow-Sana
The participants in the “Cop 26” climate conference in Glasgow, Scotland, today adopted the “Glasgow Charter” aimed at accelerating the pace of combating global warming, but without ensuring that it is kept within the “1.5” Celsius ceiling or meeting the requests for assistance from poor countries.
According to Agence France-Presse that the final adoption of the text came after two weeks of difficult negotiations and warnings of the World Climate Conference and following last-minute amendments made by China and India on the issue of fossil energy sources.
In a separate statement following the conference, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned that "the climate catastrophe is still present" despite an agreement reached at the conference, explaining that the World Climate Conference "concluded with welcome steps forward, but that is not enough."
Guterres pointed to the need to end exemptions on fossil energy sources, dispense with coal and impose a carbon tax, in addition to securing financial assistance for the poorest countries, and said that "the texts that have been adopted are a settlement that reflects the interests, the situation, the contradictions and the state of the current political will in the world."
Guterres expressed his regret that the common political will was not enough to overcome the deep contradictions, stressing that “the time has come to move to the emergency mode,” noting that the current commitments to reduce emissions do not allow maintaining the goal set by the Paris Agreement in terms of containing global warming to below two degrees Celsius. compared to the pre-industrial era.