{"id":6719,"date":"2021-12-01T20:38:40","date_gmt":"2021-12-01T20:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=6719"},"modified":"2021-12-01T20:38:40","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T20:38:40","slug":"what-the-world-did-and-didnt-accomplish-at-cop26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=6719","title":{"rendered":"What the world did and didn\u2019t accomplish at COP26"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“The final agreement, dubbed the Glasgow Climate Pact<\/a>, was endorsed by nearly 200 countries, and presents a set of principles and goals for action on climate change. While there is no enforcement mechanism, the agreement serves as a lever for international political pressure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the first time, UN climate negotiators specifically called to draw down use of fossil fuels, which scientists say is necessary to meet climate targets. Many countries and corporations have fiercely resisted ending their reliance on oil, gas, and coal \u2014 the dominant sources of greenhouse gases that trap heat in the atmosphere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More than 130 countries also said they will zero out their impact on the climate in the next half-century, and most countries strengthened their pledges to cut emissions. At the beginning of the two-week conference, India announced a target of net-zero emissions by 2070. That means the world\u2019s three largest greenhouse-gas emitters \u2014 China, the US, and India, together accounting for nearly half of global emissions \u2014 are now aiming to stop contributing to climate change completely in the coming decades. India, however, weakened some of the language on ending coal power in the final hours of the meeting.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“the true test of the negotiations will be the actions countries take to make their pledges real \u2014 not just in terms of reducing emissions, but also restoring ecosystems, switching to clean energy, and addressing the historic injustices around climate change.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.vox.com\/22777957\/cop26-un-climate-change-conference-glasgow-goals-paris<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“The final agreement, dubbed the Glasgow Climate Pact, was endorsed by nearly 200 countries, and presents a set of principles and goals for action on climate change. While there is no enforcement mechanism, the agreement serves as a lever for international political pressure.<\/p>\n

For the first time, UN climate negotiators specifically called to draw down use of fossil fuels, which scientists say is necessary to meet climate targets. Many countries and corporations have fiercely resisted ending their reliance on oil, gas, and coal \u2014 the dominant sources of greenhouse gases that trap heat in the atmosphere.<\/p>\n

More than 130 countries also said they will zero out their impact on the climate in the next half-century, and most countries strengthened their pledges to cut emissions. At the beginning of the two-week conference, India announced a target of net-zero emissions by 2070. That means the world\u2019s three largest greenhouse-gas emitters \u2014 China, the US, and India, together accounting for nearly half of global emissions \u2014 are now aiming to stop contributing to climate change completely in the coming decades. India, however, weakened some of the language on ending coal power in the final hours of the meeting.”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“the true test of the negotiations will be the actions countries take to make their pledges real \u2014 not just in terms of reducing emissions, but also restoring ecosystems, switching to clean energy, and addressing the historic injustices around climate change.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[105,272,355,104,314],"class_list":["post-6719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-climate-change","tag-foreign-affairs","tag-foreign-policy","tag-global-warming","tag-international-relations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6720,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6719\/revisions\/6720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}