Difficult to negotiate before the last day of COP25 Greenhouse gas reduction target December 13, 6:12
The United Nations meeting to discuss global warming countermeasures, “COP25”, is scheduled for the final day on the 13th, but there are disagreements over how to incorporate the increase in greenhouse gas reduction targets into the outcome of the meeting. Is difficult.
Before the final day of negotiations for COP25, Minister of Environment Schmidt in Chile, the presidency, gathered the ministerial level of each country and explained the progress of the negotiations.
In this COP, before the “Paris Agreement”, an international framework for global warming countermeasures, begins next year, the focus is on whether countries can agree by raising greenhouse gas reduction targets.
So far, discussions have been underway to include statements that encourage countries to raise their reduction targets in the documents that will be the outcome of the conference, but there is a disagreement over the strength of the representation.
It is also difficult to negotiate the rules necessary to implement the Paris Agreement.
Of these, the rules for calculating the amount of greenhouse gas emissions that could be reduced by technical assistance to other countries, etc. are reported to the United Nations in detail in order to prevent double counting in order to prevent double counting. There is a plan to do so, but some developing countries are rebounding.
Regarding the status of the negotiations, Minister Koizumi stated, “I don't know what negotiations are all the way to the end, but I want to be able to do everything possible while sharing optimism and a healthy sense of crisis.”
If countries are unable to find a compromise within the 13th, it is expected that negotiations can be continued by extending the session.
Opinions of each country's negotiator are divided
An Ethiopian negotiator who stated that it would raise the greenhouse gas reduction target said that it was important to encourage each country to raise it. "
An Angola negotiator man said, “Efforts to reduce greenhouse gases are necessary, but for countries like us where drought and other global warming are serious, it is more urgent to have the ability to withstand global warming. “We should give priority to supporting efforts to adapt to global warming.”
In addition, the Norwegian negotiator's man argued that the negotiations were difficult, “The situation caused by global warming is imminent, and we must reach an agreement across each position”. Did not.