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World Leaders, Activists Descend on Glasgow for COP26 as Future of Humanity Hangs in the Balance
World leaders and activists have arrived in Glasgow, Scotland, for COP26, a critical United Nations summit aimed at averting the most catastrophic effects of the climate crisis. A recent U.N. Emissions Gap Report showed that current contributions and commitments by nations to reduce emissions aren’t nearly enough to avert a planetary disaster. This is U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres.
Secretary-General António Guterres: “There is a serious risk that Glasgow will not deliver. Several recent climate announcements might leave the impression of a rosier picture. Unfortunately, this is an illusion. The current nationally determined contributions, formal commitments by governments, still condemn the world to a calamitous 2.7 degree increase. … There are serious questions of credibility. We see dangerous levels of mistrust among the big powers, among members of the G20, between developed and developing countries.”
Some 30,000 people are expected to take part in the two-week summit, which was postponed for a year by the pandemic. Climate activists have been gathering in Glasgow to push world leaders to take more drastic action, like ending government subsidies for fossil fuels and divesting from coal, oil and gas.
Lewis Coenen-Rowe: “So, we know that our whole financial system at the moment is embroiled with the fossil fuel industry, and we need to find a way to get out of that and to move the money into climate solutions rather than the causes of climate change.”
G20 Members Agree to Minimum Corporate Tax Rate, Vaccines Push, Make Little Progress on Climate
President Biden and others traveled to Glasgow after attending this weekend’s G20 summit in Italy, where world leaders agreed to a minimum corporate tax rate of 15%. The deal also raises additional revenue for most countries and shifts profits to the countries where companies sell products to consumers, rather than where the companies are based. Studies indicate the deal will benefit high-income countries, including the U.S., the most.
On the climate front, G20 members agreed to work toward ending coal financing overseas and pledged to “pursue efforts” to keep the global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels, as per the Paris Agreement, but made no firm commitments to that end. Activists held protests in Rome throughout the weekend.
Edoardo Mentrasti: “We are holding a demonstration on environmental and social issues and against the G20, which continues undaunted on a path that has almost led us to social and ecological failure.”
G20 members also backed an extension of debt relief for poorer nations and pledged to vaccinate 70% of the global population against COVID-19 by the middle of next year. G20 countries have received three times more vaccine doses per person than all other countries combined and 15 times more COVID vaccine doses per person than sub-Saharan African nations.
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