Governments at the U.N. climate summit have agreed to a deal after making a compromise on coal
Almost 200 nations accepted a contentious climate compromise Saturday aimed at keeping a key global warming target alive, but it contained a last-minute change that watered down crucial language about coal.
Several countries, including small island states, said they were deeply disappointed by the change promoted by India to 바카라 게임 웹사이트phase down,바카라 게임 웹사이트 rather than 바카라 게임 웹사이트phase out바카라 게임 웹사이트 coal power, the single biggest source of greenhouse gas emissions.
Nation after nation had complained earlier on the final day of two weeks of U.N. climate talks in Glasgow, Scotland about how the deal did not go far or fast enough, but they said it was better than nothing and provided incremental progress, if not success.
Negotiators from Switzerland and Mexico called the coal language change against the rules because it came so late. However, they said they had no choice but to hold their noses and go along with it.
Swiss environment minister Simonetta Sommaruga said the change will make it harder to achieve the international goal to limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) since pre-industrial times.
바카라 게임 웹사이트Our fragile planet is hanging by a thread,바카라 게임 웹사이트 United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in a statement. 바카라 게임 웹사이트We are still knocking on the door of climate catastrophe.바카라 게임 웹사이트
Many other nations and climate campaigners pointed at India for making demands that weakened the final agreement.
"India바카라 게임 웹사이트s last-minute change to the language to phase down but not phase out coal is quite shocking,바카라 게임 웹사이트 said Australian climate scientist Bill Hare, who tracks world emission pledges for the science-based Climate Action Tracker. 바카라 게임 웹사이트India has long been a blocker on climate action, but I have never seen it done so publicly.바카라 게임 웹사이트
Others approached the deal from a more positive perspective. In addition to the revised coal language, the Glasgow Climate Pact included enough financial incentives to almost satisfy poorer nations and solved a long-standing problem to pave the way for carbon trading.
The agreement also says big carbon polluting nations have to come back and submit stronger emission-cutting pledges by the end of 2022.
바카라 게임 웹사이트It바카라 게임 웹사이트s a good deal for the world,바카라 게임 웹사이트 U.S. climate envoy John Kerry told The Associated Press. 바카라 게임 웹사이트It바카라 게임 웹사이트s got a few problems, but it바카라 게임 웹사이트s all in all a very good deal.바카라 게임 웹사이트
Before the India change, negotiators said the deal preserved, albeit barely, the overarching goal of limiting Earth's warming by the end of the century to 1.5 degrees. The world has already warmed 1.1 degrees Celsius (2 degrees Fahrenheit) compared to preindustrial times.
Ahead of the Glasgow talks, the United Nations had set three criteria for success, and none of them were achieved. The U.N.바카라 게임 웹사이트s criteria included pledges to cut carbon dioxide emissions in half by 2030, $100 billion in financial aid from rich nations to poor, and ensuring that half of that money went to helping the developing world adapt to the worst effects of climate change.
바카라 게임 웹사이트We did not achieve these goals at this conference,바카라 게임 웹사이트 Guterres said Saturday night. 바카라 게임 웹사이트But we have some building blocks for progress."
Negotiators Saturday used the word 바카라 게임 웹사이트progress바카라 게임 웹사이트 more than 20 times, but rarely used the word 바카라 게임 웹사이트success바카라 게임 웹사이트 and then mostly in that they바카라 게임 웹사이트ve reached a conclusion, not about the details in the agreement. Conference President Alok Sharma said the deal drives 바카라 게임 웹사이트progress on coal, cars, cash and trees바카라 게임 웹사이트바카라 게임 웹사이트 and is 바카라 게임 웹사이트something meaningful for our people and our planet.바카라 게임 웹사이트바카라 게임 웹사이트
Environmental activists were measured in their not-quite-glowing assessments, issued before India바카라 게임 웹사이트s last-minute change.
바카라 게임 웹사이트It바카라 게임 웹사이트s meek, it바카라 게임 웹사이트s weak and the 1.5 C goal is only just alive, but a signal has been sent that the era of coal is ending. And that matters,바카라 게임 웹사이트 said Greenpeace International Executive Director Jennifer Morgan, a veteran of the U.N. climate talks known as the Conferences of Parties.
Former Irish President Mary Robinson, speaking for a group of retired leaders called The Elders, said the pact represents 바카라 게임 웹사이트some progress, but nowhere near enough to avoid climate disaster... People will see this as a historically shameful dereliction of duty.바카라 게임 웹사이트
Next year바카라 게임 웹사이트s talks are scheduled to take place in the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh. Dubai will host the meeting in 2023.
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Aniruddha Ghosal, Karl Ritter and Ellen Knickmeyer contributed to this report.