Last straight line before the end of COP26.
A new draft final declaration from the Glasgow climate conference calls for “accelerating efforts” towards phasing out coal and speeding up countries' commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
On the other hand, the text posted online this Saturday by the British presidency of the COP26 makes no mention of a specific mechanism to compensate for the “losses and damages” already suffered by the poorest countries and exposed to the effects of global warming, a of their strong demands and one of the very controversial points of the negotiations.
The text proposed by the British Presidency after laborious negotiations, unchanged the call to Member States to raise their emission reduction commitments more regularly than provided for in the Paris Agreement, and this from 2022, but with the possibility adjustments for "special national circumstances".
This last point had provoked criticism from NGOs on the real ambition of countries to limit the rise in temperatures.
A third, less restrictive version
The unprecedented mention of fossil fuels, the main cause of global warming and which are not even mentioned in the Paris Agreement, is preserved in this new text, the third version of the draft declaration. But it is again a little less imperative than the previous one, since it calls this time on the member countries to "accelerate the efforts towards the exit of coal-fired energy without a capture system (of CO2) and inefficient energy subsidies. fossils ”.
The words "accelerate efforts towards" did not appear in the previous version, which had already relaxed the wording compared to the first, which did not mention the "capture system", a technology still little established, and did not specify "ineffective »Concerning fossil fuel financing.
However, the text did not change on the financial envelope intended to help the poorest countries to reduce their emissions and to prepare to face the devastating consequences of climate change, which was at the heart of the tensions in the negotiations.
Developing countries had notably put on the table a proposal to create a specific mechanism to take into account "loss and damage", that is to say the damage already caused by the devastating impacts of storms, droughts and heat waves which multiply.
But the United States in particular was opposed to such specific consideration.
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