The director of the UN Climate Program criticized the countries negotiating at COP28 in Dubai this Wednesday, accusing them of maintaining the same positions six days before the end of the summit.
“We have a starting text on the table, but it is a lot of wishes full of positions,” lamented Stimon Stiell at a press conference.
“It is imperative to separate the wheat from the chaff. If we are to save lives and maintain the 1.5°C target, the most ambitious COP targets must remain at the center [do debate]”, he is stressed.
“At the end of next week, the COP should present a ‘high-speed train’ to accelerate climate action. All we have today is an old locomotive running on worn-out rails,” continued the UN Convention executive secretary. United Nations on Climate Change.
The organization is central to the COP28 negotiation process, chaired by the United Arab Emirates.
“The tools are on the table. The technologies and solutions exist. This is the time for governments and negotiators to use them,” he stressed.
COP28, which began last Thursday, started with several non-binding commitments from governments on aspects of the energy transition, but the real objective of the conference is to reach a legal and legally binding text.
This Wednesday, the eve of a day of pause, the draft agreement that negotiators are discussing listed very divergent positions with “options” in several articles, without any progress towards a compromise.
The 28th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28), which began on Thursday, brings together representatives from almost every country in the world in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates, until December 12, to discuss adaptation strategies. and mitigation, financial support, and take stock of eight years of climate action.
Source: TSF
