The “climate neutrality”? A pious illusion, the word of India. Nothing is leading the Union towards nothing
The UK will host the 26th United Nations Conference of the Parties on Climate Change (COP26) in Glasgow on. November 1-12, 2021.
The United Nations and the Paris Agreement have set a neutral target for 2050, to which the European Union, the United Kingdom and the USA adhere. Too bad that without China this goal is useless. By itself, Beijing has set the goal of 2060, but for now it is still building coal plants. India has an even different and much more skeptical view. But without these countries the agreement becomes… waste paper
It is much easier for developed countries to do something about carbon emissions than developing countries, which have yet to complete their industrial revolution and need large-scale energy sources.
In a pre-summit meeting of 197 countries, China did not appear, while India defined the objectives " A Pie in the sky " a "Pious Illusion". India, ranked fourth as CO2 emitters, has no intention of adhering to the objectives of the Paris Agreement. No "Neutrality" by 2050. But not even 2060 is good …
“2060 sounds good, but that's right, it sounds good,” said Raj Kumar Singh, Indian power minister, in a meeting organized by the International Energy Agency (IEA), but that doesn't mean anything.
"I would call it, and I'm sorry to say, just a Pious Illusion."
“There are countries whose per capita emissions are four or five or 12 times the world average. The question is when will they come down? "
"What we hear is that by 2050 or 2060 we will become carbon neutral, 2060 is far away and if people emit at the rate they are emitting the world will not survive, so what you will do in the next five years this is what the world wants to know. ".
“There are 800 million people who do not have access to electricity. We cannot expect them to go zero emissions. They too have the right to develop ”.
But without China and India, the Commission's emissions targets are just a joke, while the famous CBAM mechanism for "'Adjustment at the border" will be just tariffs.
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