COP26, instructions for use: but what's going on there?

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US President Joe Biden speaks at COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland on November 2, 2021. REUTERS - YVES HERMAN

By: Anne-Cécile Bras Follow

While global greenhouse gas emissions should be reduced by 25% between 2010 and 2030, the commitments currently made by States result in an increase of 16%.

For 1 euro invested in renewable energies, 2 euros are invested in fossil fuels.

How to get out of this schizophrenia? 

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Guests:

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François Gemenne,

specialist in environmental geopolitics, professor at Sciences Po Paris and at the University of Liège.

He has just published 

Geopolitics of the climate, international relations in an overheating world

 with Armand Colin

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Tanguy Gahouma

, chief negotiator of the Africa group at COP26

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David Levaï,

associate researcher at IDDRI.

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