China News Service, January 3 According to the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) report on the 2nd, 2021 will come with global cheers and expectations.

In the new year, the topics of climate change and global warming will become hot topics.

UN Secretary-General Guterres told Justin Rollat, the BBC's chief environmental reporter, that he believes that the turning point in the long-lasting victory of climate change will be this year.

In this regard, the BBC published an article listing five major reasons why the climate change issue may turn around in 2021.

Data map: UN Secretary General Guterres.

Photo by China News Agency reporter Liao Pan

01. Vital Climate Conference

　　In 2021, world leaders will gather in Glasgow, Scotland to participate in the second global climate summit.

The United Nations Climate Summit held in Paris in 2015 was an important milestone for mankind to join hands in tackling the climate crisis. Its significance lies in the fact that leaders of all countries gathered together to make commitments and reach agreements on the obligations of countries in the overall situation of a protracted climate change war.

　　The Paris Agreement establishes the basic framework for the international community to co-operate on climate change after 2020, and proposes to control the global average temperature rise within 2 degrees Celsius from the pre-industrial level, and work hard to control the temperature rise within 1.5 degrees Celsius .

　　Due to the new crown epidemic, the Glasgow Climate Conference, which was supposed to be held in November 2020, was postponed to 2021.

Therefore, the Glasgow Summit provided a platform to discuss increasing carbon emissions reductions and brought hope.

Data map: There have been many large-scale bleaching incidents on the Great Barrier Reef. Australian scientists said that this is a signal that the Great Barrier Reef, an oceanic miracle, is "calling for urgent assistance" and calling on people to take action against climate change.

02. Many countries commit to increase the intensity and range of carbon emission reduction

　　In June 2019, among the industrially developed countries, the United Kingdom was the first to announce a legally binding commitment with the goal of zero net greenhouse gas emissions.

The European Union followed closely and made similar commitments in March 2020.

　　Subsequently, Japan and South Korea also joined the ranks of achieving "zero emissions" in the middle of this century.

The United Nations estimates that there are already more than 110 countries in this camp.

U.S. President-elect Biden has also announced that he will rejoin the Paris Agreement.

　　The BBC said that what these countries need to do now is to come up with a specific action plan, which will become an important topic of the Glasgow summit.

Data map: In northwest Greenland, sled dogs cross the lake formed by melting glaciers.

03. Renewable energy prices are unprecedentedly low

　　The article pointed out that there is an important reason why so many countries have successively set zero emission targets, that is, the low price of renewable energy has completely rewritten the calculation method of carbon emission reduction costs.

In October 2020, the International Energy Agency (IEA) concluded that the current top solar power system can be called "the cheapest power supply in history."

　　For new power stations in most parts of the world, renewable energy generation is often cheaper than fossil energy generation.

If countries around the world increase their investment in wind energy, solar energy and batteries in the next few years, the price of renewable energy will continue to fall.

　　If the price is low to a certain level, the price of renewable energy is expected to become an object that attracts investors and governments, thus accelerating the global decarbonization process and energy iterative update.

Data map: The northernmost town on earth under climate warming.

On August 5, 2019, local time, Svalbard, Norway. Kim Holmen, International Director of the Norwegian Polar Institute, described, “We are losing what we know about Svalbard. Due to climate change, we are losing what we know. The North Pole,"

04. The new crown epidemic has changed everything

　　The new crown epidemic reminds people that the world is entirely possible to be subverted in ways beyond human control.

At the same time, the epidemic also brought strong economic shocks.

Governments of various countries have successively put out stimulus packages to rescue and revitalize the economy.

　　The good news is that global interest rates have fluctuated around zero and even plunged into negative territory.

As a result, the cost of the government's stimulus package has been unprecedentedly low, and it has also created an unprecedented opportunity for reconstruction to "remove the old and incorporate the new.

Data map: On December 9, 2019, the impact of global warming on the ecology intensified. More than 60 polar bears appeared near the village of Rerkepi in the Chukotka Autonomous Region in northern Russia.

Due to the thinning of sea ice due to global warming, polar bears have to break into human villages for food.

05. Business circles move closer to green

　　The business community has also begun to change its business attitudes amid falling prices of renewable energy and public pressure.

There is also a strong financial motivation behind this.

　　If a new investment in oil exploration or coal power generation has lost its existence value before it can recover its cost, is it necessary?

Maybe there shouldn't be carbon risk in the portfolio at all?

　　At the same time, the business community has a surging force that drives businesses to include climate change risk factors in financial decisions.

The business community and investors must be able to prove that they have taken the necessary steps to transition to zero net emissions, and this disclosure is mandatory.

　　The report pointed out that 70 central banks are already working hard to achieve this goal.

Implanting the above requirements into the framework of the world financial system is a key topic of the Glasgow Conference.

　　The article finally pointed out that there are reasons to have hope for the future, but we must also realize that there is still a long way between vision and reality.

The reality is that many countries have generously pledged, but only a handful of countries have formulated action strategies.

The challenge for the Glasgow Conference is to get countries to sign up to adopt policies that can reduce carbon emissions immediately.