Posted on Nov 14, 2021, 8:29 PM
He recognizes a certain “disappointment”. In the aftermath of the “Glasgow Pact” concluded by wire by nearly 200 countries, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, whose country was hosting COP26, would have liked the participants to go further to reduce global warming.
“My joy at this progress is tinged with disappointment,” he said at a press conference, referring to “those for whom climate change is already a matter of life and death”. The latter “demanded a high level of ambition for this summit. And if many of us were ready to do, it was not the case for everyone ”continued the head of the English government.
Boris Johnson, however, underlined the progress made, welcoming in particular that “Glasgow (has) sounded the death knell for coal-fired energy”.
Shifts of China and India on coal
The question of abandoning coal, the extraction of which generates a very significant pollution in the world, ended in pain at the end of the COP26. India and China having managed, at the very last moment, to further tone down the wording in “reduction” instead of “exit” from coal, prompting the president of COP26, Alok Sharma, in tears, to apologize to the government. world. On Sunday, he told the BBC that China and India should “explain themselves” over the decision.
China’s turn came after it announced on Wednesday a surprise agreement with the United States, the second largest emitter of greenhouse gases after it. President Joe Biden, who attacked his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping at the start of the COP for his absence in Glasgow, must have a video conference with him on Monday.
Avec AFP
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