G20 countries continue to disagree on cutting emissions

10:37, 30/07/2023

On July 29 (Vietnam time), Reuters reported that the Group of 20 leading developed and emerging economies (G20) failed to agree on specific targets for reducing emissions.

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The G20 climate sustainability and environment ministers' meeting in India is seen as an opportunity for the world's biggest polluters to take concrete steps ahead of the G20 leaders' meeting in September in New Delhi and the COP28 summit in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in December.

The conference hopes to set targets to cut greenhouse gas emissions by up to 60% by 2035.

However, after meetings on July 28 (local time) in Chennai, the organizing committee released a document showing that the bloc remains divided on calls led by developed countries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2025 and cut 60% by 2035 compared to 2019 levels.

According to the document, members have failed to find common ground on issues such as the depletion of the "carbon budget", zero emission targets, and financial resources to support developing countries.

Developed countries in the group have called for reducing greenhouse gas emissions to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, an Indian official added. However, the proposal has faced stiff opposition from developing countries, which argue that mitigation targets - which aim to reduce or eliminate greenhouse gas emissions, or remove them from the atmosphere - will limit their ability to develop infrastructure and growth.

Members of a European delegation also revealed that China and oil-rich Saudi Arabia have refused to fulfill commitments during G20 talks.

For his part, the European Union (EU) Environment Commissioner briefly assessed that the G20 countries "are going nowhere" in their commitment to addressing climate change.

The latest standoff comes just days after scientists once again warned that human-caused climate change has played an “overwhelming” role in the extreme heatwaves sweeping across North America, Europe and China.

According to hanoimoi.vn

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