1 in 1 Drought is one of the consequences of climate change. In the photo, Poyang Lake in China’s Jiangxi province, which lost 90% of its surface in less than two months in August. — Photo: Portal THOMAS PETER Drought is one of the consequences of climate change. In the photo, Poyang Lake in China’s Jiangxi province, which lost 90% of its surface in less than two months in August. — Photo: Portal THOMAS PETER
The earth’s temperature could rise by 2.6 °C by the year 2100. The catastrophic increase was warned on Friday (8) by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC), which published the first report of the panel of scientists monitoring the impact of global action to curb climate collapse on the planet.
🔥 While there is progress in implementing commitments to improve global warming, The world community is not yet on the right track to achieve the longterm goals of the Paris Agreement.
The document, released just before the meeting of the world’s 20 major economies (G20), taking place this Saturday (9) in India, contains the panel’s key findings:
- The group believes that the Paris Agreement, signed in 2015, has brought significant progress, but that “The world community is still not on the right track to achieve the longterm objectives of the agreement”;
- For the Actions are still not enough to keep the temperature increase below the minimum value of 1.5°C to 2.0°C in order to prevent the new climate from having serious impacts on the environment and society;
- However, the panel reports significant progress in reducing expected increases over three decades of global cooperation to mitigate climate change;
- In 2010, at the time of the Cancún Accords, an increase of up to 4.8°C was forecast. In 2015, with the adoption of the Paris Agreement and commitments made by countries, the expected increase fell to 3.2°C;
- In this sense, the panel points out that the expected temperature increase could fall to a maximum of 2.1 ° C if the commitments made at the UN conference COP27 last year in Egypt are fully implemented.
The next country to assume the presidency of the G20, a group of the 20 largest economies in the world, Brazil will be represented by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT), who will begin his participation in the multilateral organization from this Saturday (9).
At the end of the meeting, Brazil will symbolically welcome the bloc’s rotating command, which brings together representatives from 19 countries and the European Union, nations that represent around 80% of the global economy.
Brazil will chair the G20 between December this year and November 2024 and then hold a summit in Rio de Janeiro of the heads of state and government of the countries that were part of the bloc.
The government said Lula should raise at the summit in India the issues he would like to discuss when Brazil heads the body. The topics are:
- social inclusion in the fight against hunger and inequality;
- Sustainable development;
- Reform of global governance institutions.
On this last point, for example, Lula has defended that the African Union should be part of the G20. This edition of the G20 summit is expected to approve membership of the African Union, a bloc that unites African countries.
In addition, the President has advocated in international forums that the UN Security Council should also be reformed in order to include more countries in the socalled permanent seats.
Currently only five countries have the right to these seats, including the United States and Russia, and Lula has defended that countries such as Brazil, Japan, Germany, India and South Africa also have these seats.
Lula’s schedule in India includes the following dates all already in Brasilia time. The time difference with New Delhi is 8 hours and 30 minutes.
- 2:00 am: G20 Summit Opening, First Session on One Earth
- 4:00 a.m.: Working lunch of the first session of the summit
- 5 am: Meeting with Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan
- 5:50 am Meeting with Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammad bin Salman
- 6:30 a.m.: Second session of the G20 summit, theme “One Family”
- 8:30 a.m.: Start of the Global Biofuels Alliance (GBA)
- 11:30 a.m.: Dinner for the G20 delegation leaders
- 00:30 : Laying of flower donation at Raj Ghat Mahatma Gandhi Memorial
- 1:45 am: Third session of the G20 summit, theme “One future”
- 2:30 am: Meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron
- 4 a.m.: G20 summit ends
- 6 am: Meeting with Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte
- 8:30 a.m.: Press conference
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