CHENNAI: Environment ministers from G20 nations failed to agree on peaking global emissions by 2025 and other crucial issues to address the global climate crisis at their meeting in India on Friday. “I am very disappointed,” France’s ecological transition minister Christophe Bechu said after the meeting. India’s climate change minister Bhupender Yadav, who chaired the meeting, admitted there had been “some issues about energy, and some target-oriented issues”. The Chennai meeting comes days after energy ministers from the bloc — which represents more than 80 per cent of global GDP and CO2 emissions — failed to agree in Goa on a roadmap to cut fossil fuels from the global energy mix. “Europe and North Africa are burning, Asia is ravaged with floods yet G20 climate ministers have failed to agree on a shared direction to halt the climate crisis which is escalating day by day,” said Alex Scott of climate change think-tank E3G.

Source: The North Africa Journal July 29, 2023 06:38 UTC