India is home to 17% of the planet’s population and is the world’s third largest emitter of global warming gases. “Today to save the world, we will just have to take big steps.”ĭuring the speech he also spoke about plans to increase his country’s 2030 goals. “For many developing countries, climate change is a very big crisis looming before them - one that threatens their very existence,” said Modi in his national statement. The prime minister of India, Narendra Modi, used the opportunity to announce his country’s pledge of reaching net zero emissions by 2070. 1 and delivered opening speeches on the urgency of climate change. India Announced a New Net Zero TargetĪt COP26, leaders from around the world took the stage on Nov. Here is a running list of the biggest announcements that have come out of COP26 so far. So the coming days of negotiations, and a continued focus on climate change beyond COP26, are both essential. The commitments we’ve seen so far may be ambitious, but only in comparison to past commitments that failed to avoid our current climate emergency. The $100 billion commitment was supposed to be hit as of 2020 but is not predicted to be reached until 2023, So far, no announcements made at Glasgow have closed that funding gap.ĬOP26 is an 11th-hour, make-or-break opportunity for world leaders to lead the charge against climate change. Wealthy nations have a vital responsibility to deliver an existing commitment to provide $100 billion annually to support lower-income nations. Fatih Birol, executive director of the International Energy Agency (IEA), tweeted on Thursday that new IEA analysis showed “fully achieving all net zero pledges to date and the Global Methane Pledge by those who signed it would limit global warming to 1.8C.”Īlso key at COP26 is financial support for countries on the front lines of the climate crisis to adapt to climate change, which is already having a significant impact, with wildfires, floods, droughts, and more extreme weather events already escalating. The world is currently on track to warm by 2.7C.Īccording to an update from US climate envoy John Kerry on Wednesday, current commitments on carbon emissions reductions meant the world had a 60% chance of limiting temperate rise to 1.5C. The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) advised countries ahead of COP26 that in order to avoid a temperature rise beyond 1.5 degrees Celsius - as set in the Paris agreement - the world must act immediately to collectively reduce annual greenhouse gas emissions by 50% in the next eight years.

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