A resolution is due to be passed on Friday, and discussions are continuing. The objective of this first version is to limit the warming to 1.5 ° C.
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The first draft resolution of COP26, published on Wednesday 10 November, encourages countries to revise upwards their commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from 2022. Soit three years before the date provided for in the 2015 Paris Agreement, which set the review of national contributions (NDC) every five years.
This text, published by the British Presidency after 10 days of technical and high-level discussions at the Glasgow climate conference, calls on the signatory countries to “revise and strengthen their plans (for emission reductions) so as to make them compatible with the warming targets of the Paris Agreement”, or a contained warming “clearly under” + 2 ° C compared to the pre-industrial era, and if possible 1.5 ° C. This new text retains the objective of “limit warming to 1.5 ° C”, pointing out that “the impact of climate change will be much less” compared to 2 ° C warming.
The text, which has yet to be discussed and can be amended before its adoption before the end of the conference scheduled for Friday, calls for “rapid, strong and sustained reductions in global greenhouse gas emissions, including CO2 emissions reductions of 45% in 2030 from 2010 levels and carbon neutrality by mid-century”. The Paris Agreement provided for the review every five years of “national contributions” countries in terms of emissions.
According to the latest UN estimates, the new climate commitments for the 2030 deadline of some states just before or at the start of the COP, should not lead to any change in the temperature trajectory towards warming. “catastrophic” of + 2.7 ° C by the end of the century.