EFE.- The international network of environmental organizations CAN considered this Wednesday essential that the COP26 climate summit held in Glasgow comes out “a commitment to eliminate fossil fuel.”
“We will not keep alive the goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees if we do not make hydrocarbons play a leading role in the COP26 negotiations,” activist and CAN leader in Canada Catherine Abreu said at a press conference.
“Fossil fuel production and the energy transition should not take a backseat in these conversations“, he claimed.
Abreu appreciated some of the announcements made by political leaders on Tuesday, including a commitment signed by a hundred countries (less China, Russia and India) to reduce methane emissions by 30% this decade, which the activist considered that “ It falls short”.
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The CAN board said that eHe hopes that tomorrow a commitment will be announced by more than twenty countries to stop financing coal projects abroad, which would be a positive step but not enough to reduce the impact of hydrocarbons.
At the same press conference, the CAN lawyer Sébastien Duyck denounced that COP26, chaired by the United Kingdom, “is not being inclusive at all”, and said that only four NGO observers can be present to contribute their points of opinion. seen in the negotiations, “of thousands that were accredited and have made the effort to come here from their countries.”
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