BALI - Some of the world's major economies are"backsliding" on their emissions commitments, Britain's climate delegate Alok Sharma said Thursday, a day afterObjections to language on climate targets and the war in Ukraine prevented a joint communique from being issued at the G-20 ministerial meeting in Bali Wednesday, diplomatic sources said.
Mr Sharma, president of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow and head of the British delegation in Bali, told Reuters the response from the G-20, which accounts for 80 per cent of global emissions, was"incredibly worrying". "It is certainly the case that what we did see was a number of countries backsliding on the commitments that they made in Paris and in Glasgow," he said."Unless the G-20 are willing to act on the commitments they have made in Glasgow, I am afraid the prospect of keeping 1.5 degrees within reach is going to slip away very, very fast."
Sharma did not single out any countries, but sources Wednesday said some members, including China, objected to previously agreed upon language in COP26 and past G-20 agreements on efforts to
If china is adding on coal powered plants and not cooperating with US, why should the rest of world bother with climate change.
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