Última actualización en junio 1, 2023 por Ecologica Life
At this year’s UN climate summit, world leaders made appearances, corporate executives made proposals, and almost 200 countries bargained over the future of the planet. The conclusions of the two-week COP27 meeting in Egypt are listed below:
COP27 Agrees That on a Fund For “Climate Justice”
After years of opposition from wealthy governments, nations finally decided to establish a fund to compensate developing nations for “loss and damage” brought on by storms, floods, droughts, and wildfires that are caused by climate change.
Es probable que se necesiten varios años para perfilar los detalles del funcionamiento del fondo. Por ejemplo, cómo se distribuirá el dinero y qué países podrán optar a él. A pesar de ello, algunos lo consideran el mayor logro desde el Acuerdo de París en la COP 2015.
El combustible fósil sigue fluyendo
El acuerdo final de la COP27 ha recibido críticas por no hacer lo suficiente para reducir las emisiones que dañan el clima. Esto incluye establecer objetivos nacionales más ambiciosos y reducir la dependencia de combustibles fósiles como el carbón, el petróleo y el gas natural.
United Arab Emirates President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan – host of next year’s COP28 climate summit – declared his nation would continue to supply oil and gas “for as long as the world is in need”.
There was a sharp U-turn on the language around fossil fuels at this year’s summit. There is now a mention of “low emission and renewable energy” in the agreement text. Given that gas emits fewer emissions than coal, this is thought to be a substantial loophole that could enable the development of further gas resources.
En los próximos 5 años, existe la posibilidad 50% de que we will pass the 1.5ºC temperature threshold relative to pre-industrial times. By 2031, we’ll probably have permanently surpassed it. This is a gran problema para la humanidad y el planeta.
But at COP27, the EU and other developed nations were attempting to keep the 1.5ºC commitment alive. Their efforts were ultimately in vain because the final agreement language omitted a mention of the phase-out of all fossil fuels. This was considered to be the next logical step on the decision to phase-down the usage of coal at COP26.
Faith in the 1.5ºC threshold has also become a key difference between the US, EU, other developed nations, and China, which is markedly less concerned about the goal. It is hoped that the next climate summit COP28 will finally see the phasing out of fossil fuels that we so desperately need.
La COP27 recibe grandes anuncios de Brasil
Crowds cheered as Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva proclaimed that “Brazil is back” in the global climate fight. He promised that the Amazon region would play home to COP30 in 2025. This was the leftist leader’s first international visit since defeating right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro in the country’s presidential election last month. Bolsonaro presided over the ongoing destruction of the Amazon rainforest and refused to host the 2019 climate summit that was originally scheduled for Brazil.
On Monday, Brazil also launched a partnership to work together on forest preservation, joining Indonesia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo in doing so. The trilateral partnership was created during ten years of intermittent discussions that persisted even as the countries’ national forest policies and leaderships changed. They are expected to press wealthy nations to pay for the protection of forests.
Reavivamiento de las relaciones entre EE.UU. y China
Lejos de Egipto, tuvo lugar un precursor crucial del acuerdo sobre el clima. Cuando la COP27 iniciaba su segunda semana, los Presidentes Xi Jinping, de China, y Joe Biden, de Estados Unidos, se reunieron en Indonesia con motivo del G20. Ambos países decidieron reanudar su colaboración en materia de cambio climático tras una larga pausa provocada por las tensiones en torno a Taiwán. Se trata de un avance importante, ya que China y Estados Unidos son los dos mayores emisores de gases de efecto invernadero del mundo.
Una súplica desesperada de Tuvalu a la COP27
La semana pasada, Simon Kofe, presidente de Tuvalu, un país insular del Pacífico envió un mensaje importante a la cumbre del clima COP27. Kofe es bien conocido por enviar mensajes impactantes. Durante la COP26 se dirigió a la conferencia de pie en el agua hasta las rodillas. La razón de estos mensajes un tanto dramáticos es que Tuvalu ya sufre consecuencias medioambientales extremas. La isla sufre simultáneamente la sequía y la subida del nivel del mar. Durante su mensaje en la COP27, Kofe propuso un plan para subir Tuvalu al metaverso to preserve it. His message was clear, if we don’t take drastic climate action now, Tuvalu will be one of the first but not the last countries to face climate catastrophe.
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