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No deal as longest climate talks(COP25)
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- Marathon international climate talks (COP25) ended recently with major polluters resisting calls to ramp up efforts to keep global warming at bay and negotiators postponing the regulation of global carbon markets until next year.
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- Important Mentions in the COP25:
(1) Declaration to help poor countries: Delegates from almost 200 nations endorsed a declaration to help poor countries that are suffering the effects of climate change, although they didn’t allocate any new funds to do so.
(2) Final declaration: called on the “urgent need” to cut planet-heating greenhouse gases in line with the goals of the landmark 2015 Paris climate change accord.
(3) COP25 fell far short of promising to enhance countries’ pledges: to cut planet-heating greenhouse gases next year, which developing countries & environmentalists had lobbied the delegates to achieve.
(4) Paris Accord established the common goal: of avoiding a temperature increase of more than 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) by the end of the century.
(5) Temperature Rising: So far, the world is on course for a 3- to 4-degree Celsius rise, with potentially dramatic consequences for many countries, including rising sea levels and fiercer storms.
(6) Issues for the next climate summit in Glasgow: Negotiators in COP25 left some of the thorniest issues like liability for damages caused by rising temperatures that developing countries were insisting on. The demand was resisted mainly by the USA.
Sources
The Hindu