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This Sunday, December 15, COP25 contented itself with emphasizing, during its closing session, the " urgent need " to act against global warming. But without reaching agreement on several essential points responding to the climate emergency and the pressing calls of environmental activists.
A minimum agreement is what we feared, because if the end of this COP 25 has been postponed for two days, including last night, it is because the participants could not find a compromise . As of last night, environmental organizations were talking about failure, Greta Thunberg tweeted, " it looks like COP 25 is falling apart, science is clear, but science is being ignored " she added.
Difficult to agree 200 countries
It is very difficult to reach 200 countries and the proposals of the Chilean presidency yesterday were rejected, sometimes for completely opposite reasons, for some countries it did not go far enough, for others it was much too daring.
Ultimately, given the current state of commitments, forecasts estimate that the temperature increase could be 4 ° or 5 ° at the end of the century. We do not have for the moment the detail of what appears in this agreement concluded this Sunday, December 15 at the end of the morning.
See you in Glasgow in 2020
The next COP26 will be held in Glasgow, Scotland in 2020. Some 80 countries plan to propose a review of their commitments, an ambitious proposal, but these countries represent only 10% of global CO2 emissions.
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