G20 Efforts On climate change
What did the G20 say about climate change?
G20 Efforts On climate change
COP27 isn’t the only major gathering of the world’s nations to take place this week. Leaders also flew to Indonesia for the G20 summit in Indonesia, where they made a commitment to pursue efforts to limit the rise in global temperatures to 1.5C.
There they recognised the need to speed up efforts to “phase down coal use in tackling climate change.”
Delegates at the COP27 summit in Egypt kept a keen eye on events at the G20 meeting in Bali, for signs that developed nations are willing to make new commitments on climate.
A declaration issued at the end of the G20 said its leaders reaffirmed its commitments, in “pursuit of the objective of UNFCCC, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, to tackle climate change by strengthening the full and effective implementation of the Paris Agreement and its temperature goal.”
The Paris Agreement saw almost all the world’s nations – for the first time – support a common strategy to cut the greenhouse gas emissions which cause global warming.
Adopted by 194 parties (193 countries plus the EU) in the French capital on 12 December 2015, the treaty came into force on 4 November 2016. The G20 declaration also urged delegates at the COP summit to “urgently scale up” efforts of mitigating and adapting to climate change.
BBC /Shakirat Sadiq
