“We are now near the end of the trail, we arrived at a draft agreement ambitious and balanced, reflecting the positions of the parties.” These are the words of the President of Cop 21, Laurent Fabius, at the end of the UN Conference on Climate. An agreement came after negotiations dense that last night, when it is due, Fabius had forced him to give up and announce that the text would have slipped this morning.
The “draft final agreement,” the UN Conference on Climate Change will soon be distributed to the parties, said the French foreign minister, before the plenary, thanking everyone for the work ” not only of these days, but these months and for some years. ” Next to Fabius, visibly moved, sitting French President Francois Hollande and the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. Applause and smiles before the start of the session to demonstrate job satisfaction.
Criticism environmental groups. With the climate agreement in Paris, if confirmed, “the greatest challenge of this century now is how to keep the temperature increase below 1.5 degrees. The national targets for reducing emissions are not sufficient, and the Paris Agreement does nothing to change that, “says the executive director of Greenpeace International, Kumi Naidoo, noting that” if we really want to achieve the goal of net emissions zero by the second half of the century, we have to reset those of fossil fuels by 2050. “
The agreement adds Naidoo,” it neglects the people most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change and contains an intrinsic and rooted injustice: the nations most responsible for global warming have promised help to those already put in danger of losing their lives and livelihoods as a result of climate change. This agreement is not enough. ” In the opinion of Naidoo, “law enforcement efforts against climate change is proceeding slowly, but began to make progress,” “puts the fossil fuel industry on the wrong side of history,” observes the agreement “it has been watered down and polluted by those who have plundered the planet, but the text contains a new imperative to limit the global temperature rise within the safety threshold of 1.5 degrees centigrade. “
This limit, and the new” goal of ‘Zero net emissions by the second half of the century, will cause consternation in the headquarters of the coal companies and in the corridors of power of oil exporters, “he explains. The Executive Director of Greenpeace International, explains that “we will have to mobilize an even greater number of people to get rid of fossil fuels and build a future powered by renewable energies. This year the climate movement has stopped drilling in the Arctic Shell, he blocked the Keystone XL pipeline and coal started on the road to decline. Paris is only one step in a journey that continues. Our fate will be decided in the next few years from the collective courage of our species. I am sure that we will succeed. ”
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