They came to an agreement. The 196 countries gathered for COP26 adopted on Saturday, November 13 in Glasgow an agreement to speed up the fight against global warming, but without guaranteeing to meet the objective of containing it at 1.5 ° C or responding to requests for aid from poor countries. In the process, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres felt that this agreement had leads “welcome steps forward, but it is not enough”. “The climate catastrophe is always knocking on the door, he added, it’s time to switch to ’emergency’ mode “. Follow our live.
“A big step forward”. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Saturday evening that this climate change deal was “a big step forward”, even if he “there is still a lot to do in the years to come”.
“In the right direction”. The President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen assured that this agreement was “a step in the right direction” but pointed out that “the work is far from over”. She ruled that the goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 ° C remained “at hand”.
Of “blah, blah, blah”. For his part, Swedish activist Greta Thunberg lamented that the conference had come down to “blah, blah, blah“. “The real work continues outside of these rooms. And we will never, ever give up.”, said on Twitter the emblematic figure of the Fridays for Future movement.