New climatic national plans unveiled at the top top before the COP30 conference

The summit that changes the situation was summoned by Secretary General António Guterres Alongside President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva from Brazil, host of the COP30 conference which starts in November in the Amazonian city of Belém.

At first, the main climatologists Johan Rockström and Katharine Hayhoe have provided a brutal assessment of global efforts so far to honor the Paris AgreementThe 2015 historic treaty which aims to limit the rise in global temperature to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.

‘A deep concern’

Ten years later, greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming continue to increase and the annual change in world temperature exceeded 1.5 degrees for the first time last year.

“It’s a deep concern,” said Professor Rockström, chief scientist in international conservation. “” An even deeper concern is that warming seems to accelerate, going beyond emissions. “”

However, it is always possible to reach the goal of 1.5 degrees and the two experts have highlighted solutions, including the transition of fossil fuels to clean energy sources and transform food systems to eliminate waste.

“” We cannot prevent this disaster alone. But together we can. By fixing stronger targets, going through faster deadlines and making deeper commitments, “said Professor Hayhoe, winner of 2019 Prix ​​of the UN Champions of the Earth.

More action required: guterres

Below Paris AgreementGovernments are required to submit climatic plans called contributions determined at the national level (NDC) exhibiting daring measures for the next decade.

The treaty made a difference, the secretary general saidAs the elevation of the projected global temperature has increased from four degrees to less than three in the past 10 years, if the current plans are fully implemented.

” NOW, We need new plans for 2035 that go much further and much faster“, He said.” Make dramatic emissions aligned with 1.5 degrees; covering all emissions and sectors; And accelerate an energy transition just worldwide. »»

He stressed that COP30 “must conclude with a credible global response plan to put us on the right track” and described five crucial areas for action: accelerating the transition to clean energy, considerably reducing methane gas emissions, forest conservation, reduction of heavy industry emissions and the guarantee of climate justice for developing countries.

Make your “homework”, urges Lula

With just a few weeks before COP30, President Lula wondered “if the world will arrive in Belém with her duties made”.

He said that “the energy transition opens the door to a productive and technological transformation comparable to the industrial revolution” and the NDC “are the roadmap that will guide each country through this change”.

For its part, Brazil has undertaken to reduce all greenhouse gas emissions between 59% and 67%, covering all sectors of the economy, he said, and continues efforts to end deforestation by 2030.

Commitment of China and Europe

During the meeting, President Xi Jinping de China announced that in 2035, the country would reduce greenhouse gas emissions across the economy from seven to 10% compared to cutting -edge levels.

The country will also increase the share of non-fossil fuels in total energy consumption to more than 30%, will increase the wind and solar energy capacity six times compared to the levels of 2020, and will make “new energy vehicles” the dominant current of new sales of vehicles, he said in a video message.

Meanwhile, “the proper transition is evolving” in the European Union, where emissions have been down by almost 40% since 1990, said the president of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen.

European countries “also double on global partnerships” and will remain the largest climate financing suppliers in the world, she said, while mobilizing up to 300 billion euros to support the transition of clean energy worldwide.

Vulnerable nations “between hope and difficulties”

For Belize, the objective of 1.5 degrees “is not an aspiration” but “a threshold between hope and difficulties, between flourishing communities and forced displacement, between shared prosperity and irreversible loss,” said Prime Minister Johnny Briceño.

Its new NDC covers concrete actions, such as the expansion of renewable electricity production to cover 80% of domestic needs by 2035, restaurants some 25,000 hectares of degraded forest and planting a million trees over the next three years.

“But allow me to be clear, the ambition can only succeed if it is paired by the support of the vulnerable small climate nations like Belize.

“This means an extent of foreseeable funding, accessible technology and real partnerships,” he said, noting that “success depends on us all acting with an emergency, solidarity and unprecedented climate justice”.