Bestandsaufnahme zum Klimaschutz: Eine ernüchternde Bilanz
Zu wenige Zusagen - und die werden dann häufig nicht einmal eingehalten. Die globale Bestandsaufnahme der Vereinten Nationen zum Klimaschutz ist ernüchternd. Nötig seien Nachbesserungen in allen Bereichen. Von Werner Eckert.
#ClimateDiary There is no question that #COP28 will be the most important yet. The #GlobalStocktake will be the “biggest accountability moment in history”, and on its basis leaders will need to make crucial key decisions about fiscal and policy commitments. With less than two months to go, we need to all be as well informed as possible and put pressure on leaders as much as we can. I thought I would start a 🧵that I will keep going in the run up 1/n
13/n #ClimateDiary decided to do a little #COP28#Glossary here: brief explainers of key terms, familiar to many of you no doubt but perhaps useful to have in one place.
Starting with #GlobalStocktake. The #GST was part of the #ParisAgreement: that every 5 years stock would be taken of where global policies and actions are at in terms of reducing carbon/green house gas emissions in order to stay under 1.5°C warming. This will be the first GST, and it’s important
20/n Anyway sceptics were probably right: this year’s #GlobalStocktake synthesis report has shown that, so far, the ratchet hasn’t worked well enough; all governments, all NDCs are falling abysmally short of what’s needed.