World Climate Conference: States agree on the "Glasgow Climate Pact"

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John Kerry (USA) and Frans Timmermans (EU Commissioner) will discuss in Glasgow on Saturday

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At the World Climate Conference in Glasgow, the participating states agreed on a joint final declaration.

The text provides for a review of the states' climate targets for 2030.

The states thereby recognize the results of the alarming world climate report of August this year and demand an acceleration of the measures for more climate protection.

For the first time, the declaration also calls for a coal phase-out and an end to the extraction of fossil fuels.

Many states like India had resisted this until the end.

The article had been toned down several times.

The states also agreed on numerous applications that regulate the Paris Agreement in detail.

All countries will have to report detailed emissions data from 2024.

This is then used to measure the progress made by states in terms of climate protection.

It was also decided to build a global carbon market.

Numerous loopholes for greenwashing have been closed.

Nevertheless, according to experts, the rules are too weak to completely prevent misuse of CO2 credits.

Summit went into overtime

Originally, the summit should have ended on Friday.

But heated discussions about details and questions about climate finance had dragged on the world climate summit.

The British President of the World Climate Summit, Alok Sharma, then postponed the decisive plenary again.

Details in the text were negotiated at the last minute on Saturday evening.

In the afternoon, EU Commissioner Frans Timmermans called on the delegates in a dramatic speech to support the final text.

"For God's sake, don't destroy this moment," he said.

"I want each of us to think of a person who will still be there in 2030." Everyone should ask themselves what conditions this person will live under if one achieves the desired goal of stopping global warming at 1.5 degrees, lose sight of

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