cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/52380670
EU climate ministers will make a last-ditch attempt to pass a new climate change target on Tuesday, in an effort to avoid going to the U.N. COP30 summit in Brazil empty-handed.
Countries including China, Britain and Australia have already submitted new climate targets ahead of COP30.
The draft compromise ministers will discuss, seen by Reuters, includes a clause demanded by France allowing a weakening of the 2040 goal in future, if it becomes clear EU forests are not absorbing enough CO2 to meet it.
Brussels has also vowed to change other measures to attempt to win buy-in for the climate goal. These include controlling prices in an upcoming carbon market and considering weakening its 2035 combustion engine ban as requested by Germany.
Yeah, and especially China lags far behind of what they are supposed to do.
Here is where the world stands: https://climateactiontracker.org/countries/
Over the last 12 months, global temparature was already at +1.51°C, so the 1.5°C Paris Agreement goals are now outdated and can be safely ignored.
Ah, yeah. That’s because no country was on track with its climate actions, and countries like China and Russia performed even worse than most of the rest of the world.