COP27: Joe Biden eclipses new data on rising emissions with his speech

The president of United States, Joe Bidenhas eclipsed, with a speech riddled with harangues in favor of the global fight against climate change, the alarming data from the latest report by the Global Carbon Project that warns that CO2 emissions remain at record levels and will grow by 1% in 2022.

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Biden’s speech at the climate summit in Egypt (COP27) lasted just over twenty minutes and took place before an auditorium full of attendees who interrupted his speech on several occasions with applause.

“The United States is acting and everyone has to act” andIn the fight against climate change, Biden has asserted, who in a message to advanced countries has said that “if coal can be financed in developing countries, there is no reason not to finance it” the deployment of clean energy in them.

“To bend the emissions curve, all countries have to act. At this meeting we must renew and raise our climate ambitions. The United States is acting, everyone has to act. It is a duty and responsibility of global leadership”according to Biden, who during his speech had a slip and recognized that he was reading the teleprompter.

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Countries in a position to help should be helping developing countries so that they can make decisive climate decisions, according to Biden, who, in contrast, has not alluded to a central issue of COP27, compensating the most vulnerable countries for the damages. and losses caused in its territory by the effects of climate change.

The president of the United States has apologized for his country withdrawing from the Paris Agreement under the presidency of his predecessor, Donald Trump, and has assured that they will meet their commitments to reduce emissions by 2030.

“We are taking flight to do our part, to avoid the climate hell of which the United Nations Secretary-General passionately warned us earlier this week.” Biden has stated.

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In line with the speech at COP27 by European leaders, he has stressed that the war in Ukraine strengthens the urgency of the need for an energy transition away from fossil fuels.

Biden announced that the United States will double its commitment to the Adaptation Fund, up to $100 million, and that it will allocate $150 million in aid to accelerate the President’s Emergency Plan for Adaptation and Resilience (PREPARE) in Africa.

With this intervention, which has unleashed chain reactions for and against, Biden has eclipsed the annual report of the Global Carbon Project alliance, which warns that global emissions remain at levels “record with no sign of decline” and that they will close 2022 with an increase of 1%, so it is urgent to act to prevent the damage from being really serious in less than a decade.

“If current emissions levels persist, there is a 50% chance” that the increase in the planet’s temperature, compared to pre-industrial levels, exceeds 1.5°C degrees in 9 years”, the limit to avoid serious damage to humanity, according to scientists.

According to the report, greenhouse gas emissions are expected to add 40.6 gigatons of CO2 (GtCO2) in 2022, close to the all-time high of 40.9 that was reached in 2019, the year before the pandemic.

According to the forecasts included in the document, emissions are expected to decrease in China (0.9%) and Europe (0.8%), and on the contrary to increase 1.5% in the United States.

Source: Elcomercio

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