The world’s major economies are gridlocked in their efforts to agree on concrete steps to tackle climate change just two weeks before a crucial summit in Rome, according to three people familiar with the matter.
Preparatory talks between G-20 officials this week failed to end in an agreement to reduce coal subsidies and curb methane emissions.
There wasn’t even a consensus on striving toward net-zero emissions and limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees from pre-industrial levels, the people said, asking not to be named discussing confidential deliberations.
The G-20 summit will take place immediately before crunch climate change talks, known as COP26, where leaders hope to unveil a big-sounding agreement.
Earlier this week, COP26 President Alok Sharma, said the Rome summit would be a “make or break” moment for ensuring the world avoids climate catastrophe.
Negotiators, who are tasked with preparing the final communique of the G-20 summit on Oct. 30-31, even walked back some conclusions agreed by energy and environment ministers before the summer during this week’s talks.
One person described the negotiating round as a disaster.
It’s now up to leaders to show political will, the person said, after an earlier meeting between energy ministers in July ended in a failure to make any progress on coal.
China and India, two of the world’s biggest emitters and largest coal users, have failed to submit updated climate pledges to the United Nations, and China’s President Xi Jinping won’t be attending either the G-20 or COP26 summit in Glasgow in November, pushing any deal further out of reach.
However, the stalling could be just a negotiating technique, the people said, and a breakthrough could be reached in the coming weeks.
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None of them will be ona flying Carpet and their not going t o be flapping their arms real fast guess how they,ll arive Yes your right their coming in Private Jets and will ride there in gas guzzling Limos and they will use up all those Kilowatt Hours of Electricity and all that water(Have to stay Clean)while they come up with a few treaties and laws for the rest of us to follow
Spurwing Plover, it is in their use of Private Jets and Limos that those attending COP 26 benefit the earth. The earth is currently at the carbon dioxide starvation level, so the emission from the jets and limos will be beneficial.
I have been following the climate fraud closely for nineteen years. Never have I seen so much negative press in the lead up to a COP meeting. Even COP meetings that are considered to be a failure have started on a positive note. It is my guess that in response to the world wide green energy crisis both China and India have decided to stop pretending and put their emphasis on energy that is both reliable and affordable. On the other hand the US, UK, and EU are probably pretending the energy crisis which is real doesn’t exist, and that the climate crisis, which isn’t real, does exist.