Negotiators will push nations to ratchet up their efforts to keep global temperatures from rising by more than 1.5 degrees Celsius this century compared with pre-industrial times
The newly opened summit remains “our last, best hope to keep 1.5 in reach,” said Alok Sharma, the British government minister chairing the Glasgow talks, known as COP26.
“We can move the negotiations forward and we can launch a decade of ever increasing ambition and action,” Sharma said at the opening ceremony. “We can seize the enormous opportunities for green growth for good green jobs, the cheaper, cleaner power.” In Rome on Sunday, leaders of the G-20 nations accounting for 75 per cent of greenhouse emissions were negotiating on what commitments they’re willing to make to contain rising global temperatures.
“We need all of the G20 to come forward,” said Sharma. “The G20 represents 80 per cent of global emissions and that’s why every country matters, but the G20 matters particularly.” The heir to the British throne described the talks in Glasgow as “literally the last-chance saloon” for the Earth. On Monday, Charles is due to welcome leaders in Glasgow. His 95-year-old mother Queen Elizabeth II was due to attend but has been advised to rest by her doctors.
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