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Already victims of rising sea levels, with increasingly frequent flooding when there are tides and storms, 18 island countries urgently asked to stop consuming fossil fuels, whose greenhouse gases are heating up the planet at a dizzying rate: the peak must be reached in 2025, demanded the coalition represented by the Marshall Islands.
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With this message the Ministerial Summit for Climate Action (MoCA) concluded on Friday, July 14, in Brussels, five months before COP28. The Pacific archipelagos are among the countries most exposed to global warming, some of which could even disappear due to rising sea levels, a phenomenon to which increasingly violent cyclones are added.
“We must accelerate the global energy transition from fossil fuels”, declared objective of the G7, and “reach maximum greenhouse gas emissions by 2025 at the latest”, affirms the text signed by the ministers representing Colombia, Germany, France, Senegal, and several island states.
“This requires systemic transformations across all sectors, driven by an urgent exit from fossil fuels, beginning with a rapid decline in their production and use in this decade.”
These statements outline the negotiating lines for the preparation of the UN climate conference in Dubai, where humanity must establish the means to save the goal of the Paris agreement to contain warming “below +2ºC” compared to the pre-industrial period and, if possible, at +1.5ºC.
“We must eliminate ‘unabated’ fossil fuels” well before 2050, that is, those that do not have carbon capture or storage devices, said the European Commissioner for the Environment Frans Timmermans, also a signatory to this declaration, on Tuesday. a speech in Spain.
What is understood by the English term “unabated” promises to be heavily debated between now and the next COP28.
The 18 ministers warned that “technologies to reduce emissions and decontamination (…) should not serve as a green light for the continued expansion of fossil fuels.”
with AFP
