United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has pleaded with COP29 negotiators and countries to find one another on the New Collective Quantified Goals (NCQG).
Negotiators are yet to find common ground on the financing of the NCQGs and mitigation measures to fight climate change. Developed and developing nations have not moved from their stand points with no common ground found as yet.
“I urge all countries at the COP29 climate conference to step-up, pick-up the pace, and deliver. The need for Climate Action is urgent. The rewards are great and time is short,” says Guterres.
Time is against negotiators at COP29 to find common ground on the New Collective Quantified Goals to fight climate change.
Antonio Guterres calls for common
Developing nations want developed countries to give them grants of one point five trillion US dollars per annum as opposed to loans for the Just Energy Transition to mitigate greenhouse gasses in the air that cause climate change.Guterres has warned that negotiators are racing against time to find a deal in Baku.
“The clock is ticking. COP 29 is now down to the wire. I sense an appetite for agreement, but areas of convergence are coming into focus. But let’s be frank, many substantial differences are still remaining. Success is not yet guaranteed. We need a major push to get discussions over the finishing life, to deliver an ambitious and balanced package on all pending issues with a new finance goal. At its heart, failure is not an option.”
Guterres having to conclude business at the G20 summit in Brazil, returned to Baku to oversee the talks, to ease the work of COP30 in Brazil.
He has warned that if no deal is struck in Baku, it will be very difficult to agree at COP30 in Brazil, next year. The UN chief pleaded with developed nations to open their cheque books for funding for a better clean world.
“To ministers and negotiators, soften hard lines, navigate the best through your differences and keep your eyes on the bigger picture. Never forget what it is at stake. This is a COP to deliver justice in the face of climate catastrophe, to move us closer to securing a decent world for all humanity. This is not a zero sum game, and finance is not the handout. It is an investment against the devastation that unchecked climate chaos will in fleet on us all. It is a down payment on a safer, more prosperous future for every nation on Earth. And so, we must make progress and we must use the promise we already made to build upon.”
Guterres has also stressed that if the world is to achieve the 1.5 degrees Celsius target, countries must do away with the use of fossil fuels.
“Science stresses that there will be no way to reach 1.5 degrees as a limit for global warming if the is not a phase out of fossil fuels. Of course phase out of fossil fuels in the context of Just Transition. And it is my opinion that whatever language is adopted, will never change this reality.
Guterres has urged G20 leaders to instruct their ministers and negotiators to secure a compromise, to secure a successful COP29.
Source: BBC
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