UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, who warned on Friday that the world was rushing headlong towards climate disaster, said the Rome summit neither fulfilled his hopes nor buried them. “While I welcome the #G20’s recommitment to global solutions, I leave Rome with my hopes unfulfilled — but at least they are not buried,” he said in a tweet. The G20 bloc, which includes Brazil, China, India, Germany, and the United States, accounts for an estimated 80% of global greenhouse gas emissions. The final statement merely recognizes that reducing methane emissions is “one of the quickest, most feasible and most cost-effective ways to limit climate change”. World leaders will kick start COP26 on Monday with two days of speeches that could include some new emissions-cutting pledges before technical negotiators lock horns over the rules of the 2015 Paris climate accord.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer November 01, 2021 02:17 UTC