The action after the big declarations. The former Prime Minister and President of the COP21, Laurent Fabius, called on Sunday, October 24 in Sunday Newspaper, that the COP26, which is due to open on October 31, serves to accelerate action against climate change. “The Paris summit, which I chaired in 2015, has become the benchmark COP; that of Glasgow, in 2021, must be an accelerator of action. What everyone hopes, specialist or not, are results concrete and relatively short-term “, he said.
According to him, the Glasgow summit must achieve several objectives: revise upwards the commitments made by the States, achieve progress on the issue of financing, in particular towards poor countries which pollute less than rich countries, and reflect on issue of social justice.
Continuing “With the current slope, this would result in more heatwaves, mega-heaters, floods and famines. Also more deforestation and massive and forced human migrations. In short, a calamitous procession that will strike all over the world”, he warns.
The COP26 which takes place in Glasgow (Scotland) from October 31, and for fifteen days, will try to persuade some 200 countries to do more to reduce their carbon emissions in order to contain global warming below 1, 5 ° C compared to the pre-industrial era, an ambitious threshold set in 2015 by the Paris agreements. Since the signing of these agreements, the transition to a cleaner economy and energies has progressed, but too slowly to limit warming to 2 ° C (and therefore a fortiori to 1.5 ° C) compared to the end of the 19th century. century.