Fabius wants COP26 to be "an accelerator of climate action"

“The Paris summit, which I chaired in 2015, has become the benchmark COP;

that of Glasgow, in 2021, must be an accelerator of action ”against global warming, said Laurent Fabius in

.

"What everyone hopes, specialist or not, are concrete and relatively short-term results," added the former Prime Minister about the COP26, which is due to open on October 31.

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, especially for poor countries, which pollute less than rich countries, and reflect on issue of social justice.

Contain global warming below 1.5 ° C

By continuing "with the current slope, this would result in more heat waves, mega-heat, 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 Scotland for two weeks, 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-era era. -industrial, ambitious threshold set in 2015 by the Paris agreements.

Since the signing of these agreements, the transition to a cleaner economy and energy has progressed, but too slowly to limit warming to 2 ° C, let alone 1.5 ° C, compared to the end of the 19th century.

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