The most prominent reactions to the COP-26 agreement: optimism, warning, a big step forward, a “historic moment” and .. “chatter”!
International reactions to the agreement adopted by the COP-26 summit Saturday in Glasgow to expedite the fight against global warming, and the following are the most prominent of these responses:
Guterres
warned UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres that "the climate catastrophe is still present" despite the agreement reached Saturday at the COP-26 climate conference in Glasgow.
And he said in a statement that the World Climate Conference ended with "welcome steps forward, but that is not enough."
"Unfortunately, the collective political will was not enough to overcome the deep contradictions" between countries and "the time has come to move to a state of emergency," he said.
Guterres listed "unfulfilled" goals such as financial assistance to the poorest countries and "an end to fossil fuel subsidies, coal disposal, and a carbon price".
Johnson
described the
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson Saturday the
agreement reached at the
top of a
cup -26 climate as " a
big step forward," but warned that there is a
work "very much needs to
be done."
"There is still a lot of tremendous work to be done in the coming years," he said after the summit.
"But today's agreement is a huge step forward. What matters is that we have the first-ever international agreement to reduce coal use, and a roadmap to limit global warming to 1.5°C."
"We have asked countries to mobilize for our planet in COP-26, and they have answered the call," the British prime minister continued.
"I hope in the future we will see the COP-26 in Glasgow as the beginning of the end of climate change, and I will continue to work tirelessly to achieve this goal," he added.
Von der
Leyen European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen considered the agreement reached at Saturday's COP-26 summit in Glasgow a "step in the right direction", but stressed that "the work is not done yet."
In a statement Saturday evening, von der Leyen said that the goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius remains "within reach."
She considered that the Glasgow Charter, which was adopted by 200 countries at COP-26, "has kept the goals of the Paris Agreement (2015) alive, by giving us an opportunity to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius."
German Environment
Minister The outgoing German Minister of Environment, Social Democrat Svenja Schulz, considered that "we are really living a historic moment."
"Coal is now being phased out all over the world" and a "new business model" has emerged, she added.
Activist Greta Thunberg
Swedish activist Greta Thunberg regretted the outcome of the COP-26 climate conference Saturday in Glasgow, saying it was nothing more than "chatter".
"The real work continues outside these halls. We will never, ever, give up," the activist wrote on Twitter after the World Climate Conference concluded.
A few days ago, the activist warned that any climate agreement that talks about "small steps in the right direction, some progress, or progress gradually" is "equivalent to losing."
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