Some international locations have resisted 1.5°C aim in COP27 textual content, U.S. says By Reuters

By Valerie Volcovici

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (Reuters) – A number of international locations have resisted mentioning a worldwide aim of limiting warming to 1.5 levels Celsius within the official textual content of the COP27 summit in Egypt, U.S. Particular Local weather Envoy John Kerry stated on the convention on Saturday.

“You are completely right. There are only a few international locations, however a couple of, which have raised the problem of not mentioning this phrase or that phrase,” Kerry stated when requested about opposition by some governments to mentioning the 1.5C goal.

“However the reality is that, in Glasgow that was adopted, the language is there. And I do know … Egypt would not intend to be the nation that hosts a retreat from what was achieved in Glasgow,” Kerry stated, referring to final 12 months’s COP summit in Scotland.

World governments agreed in 2015 throughout a U.N. summit in France to attempt to restrict the typical international temperature improve to 1.5C, a deal dubbed the Paris Settlement that was seen as a breakthrough in worldwide local weather ambition.

Greenhouse fuel emissions have been rising ever since, nevertheless, and scientists say the world dangers lacking the goal with out swift and deep cuts. Breaching the 1.5C threshold dangers unleashing the worst penalties of worldwide warming.

Already, the world has warmed greater than 1.1C from the preindustrial common temperature – fueling excessive climate that’s already delivering steep financial losses.

Many growing international locations have demanded the institution of a “loss and harm” fund that would disperse money to international locations struggling to get better from disasters.

Kerry stated the USA wouldn’t help establishing such a fund, and as an alternative believed present platforms ought to be used.

“It is a well-known indisputable fact that the USA and plenty of different international locations is not going to set up … some kind of authorized construction that’s tied to compensation or legal responsibility. That is simply not taking place,” he stated.

“We are going to discover a means, I’m assured, to have the ability to have monetary preparations that replicate the fact of how we’re all going to take care of the local weather disaster.”