China’s climate envoy for COP27, Xie Zhenhua, said Monday that Beijing would like the UN Climate Summit climate agreement to set a target to limit global warming to 2°C, adding that countries should try 1.5°C – a commitment similar to language agreed to in the Paris Agreement in 2015.
Zhenhua said Beijing would like an agreement that contains language similar to the agreement made last year in Glasgow, Scotland, at COP26, on targets to limit global warming, and did not oppose the 1.5C target.
“Last year’s Glasgow deal says it clearly. We must follow the Paris and Glasgow Agreement,” Xie said.
US Special Envoy John Kerry said last week that some countries at the COP resisted mentioning the 1.5°C target in the official text of COP27, but did not specify names.
China is the biggest emitter of greenhouse gases in the world.
COP26 countries in Scotland reaffirmed the ambition set out in the 2015 Paris Agreement to halt warming to less than 2°C above pre-industrial times, as well as their target of 1.5°C as a better outcome.
The final text of the Glasgow pact also went a step further to elaborate on the benefits of stopping warming by 1.5°C, and UK hosts touted the deal as one that would keep the 1.5°C target alive.
Scientists say that crossing the 1.5°C threshold could bring the worst effects of climate change, and that the world will pass without more ambitious cuts in emissions.
Source: CNN Brasil
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