Several reports on the state of the climate were presented this Tuesday at COP 28 in Dubai. According to analyses, no country will be able to respect the objectives set by the Paris agreement.
“The Climate Action Tracker shows that no country in the world is actually on track to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions in order to achieve the 1.5 degree target of the Paris Agreement. We also had the Global Carbon Project, which found that emissions in 2023 increased by 1.1% globally, more than 8% in India. And we had the Meteorological Organization’s decadal review global, which evens out any changes you might see from La Niña or El Nino. And that’s a pretty bleak outlook for our planet.” explains our correspondent in Dubai Jeremy Wilks.
“We’re seeing accelerating climate change across a wide range of areas in the climate system. We’re seeing continued increases in global temperatures. We’re seeing sea levels rise at an increasing rate. We’re seeing ice sheet loss at an increasing rate. We’re seeing the oceans getting warmer and more acidic. So we’re seeing changes across much of the climate system and they’re generally changes that are not in the right direction.” says Blair Trewin, scientist at the World Meteorological Organization, who worked on the two reports presented on Tuesday.
Faced with such evidence, we need to change our discourse, as Bertrand Piccard, founder of the Solar Impulse Foundation, says: “we must show the solutions more than the problems. We must show that decarbonization must be done through profitable modernization of countries by having more efficiency, by stopping wasting energy and resources and by polluting, but also by stopping wasting money. So there is a climate emergency. Yes, but there is an economic imperative which can probably be much more motivating for the world of economics, industry and politics. “
With these thoughts and reports in mind, the big question now is whether, at the end of this conference, we will reach an agreement to phase out fossil fuels.