The head of European diplomacy today, Thursday (12/8) called on the world’s largest economies to set stricter targets for climate -including the commitment to eliminate greenhouse gas emissions- in time for International Climate Summit in November.
Earlier this week, a United Nations report noted the severity of global warming, which are dangerously close to exceeding the limits that countries have agreed are needed to prevent the most serious effects of climate change.
Forest fires and floods are already wreaking havoc and a monitoring station in Sicily recorded yesterday a temperature of 48.8 degrees Celsius, which some scientists believe is perhaps the highest in the history of Europe.
“The challenge now is to ensure at the Glasgow summit that all major economies will set fairly ambitious, measurable and verifiable targets for 2030 and commitments to climate neutrality,” EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell told An.
THE European Union and the US set stricter targets for reducing emissions by 2030 this year.
US President Joe Biden has promised to put the US on track for net zero emissions by 2050. The EU has set the target with relevant legislation.
Climate neutrality means that as much greenhouse gases are emitted as can be removed from the atmosphere through vegetation or carbon dioxide-absorbing technologies.
China, India and Russia are among the countries under international pressure to raise their targets in time for the United Nations climate summit in Glasgow.
As a highly developed economy, Borel has said that the EU has a duty to set an example.
“As one of the most economically developed regions in the world, we are among those that emit and have emitted in the past most of the greenhouse gases that are responsible for climate change,” Borrell said.
Last month, the EU proposed 13 laws to reduce emissions across the European bloc in order to meet the target of reducing net emissions by 55% by 2030, from 1990 levels.
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