The task may seem a failure. The much-heralded climate goal from the Paris Agreement to keep temperature increases to 1.5 degrees was exceeded for the first time last year.
At the same time, the big polluter, the United States, has left the same climate agreement, and world leaders are now gathering to discuss armaments rather than CO2 reductions. Yet international climate diplomats refuse to acknowledge that the battle has been lost.
There are still significant reasons to uphold the one and a half degree goal, says the Brazilian chairman of the COP30 climate summit, André Aranha Corrêa do. Lago.
- Most scientists who advise us say that we should keep the one and a half degree goal as a reference. Because even though we have exceeded that, we still have an opportunity to stabilize the development, he says.
The statement falls to Ritzau in Moltke's Palace in inner Copenhagen, where around 40 climate ministers and representatives have gathered on Wednesday and Thursday for the Copenhagen Climate Ministerial.
The event is a Danish climate diplomatic initiative that will try to create agreement and remove points of contention ahead of the crucial climate summit COP30 in the autumn.
The climate fight in difficult times
In the palace in inner Copenhagen, the actors must acknowledge that the climate fight is in difficult times. War and economic crises attract political decision-making power.
Therefore, the Danish Minister of Climate Lars Aagaard (M), who is hosting the meeting, is pleased that there is broad agreement on the need to send a signal to, for example, the USA.
- Even though some have withdrawn, we stand firm, says Lars Aagaard about the mood at the meeting.
President Trump is certainly shouting that we must drill, drill, drill for oil. But that does not necessarily reflect the entire American country, the Brazilian COP chairman agrees. And that gives him hope.
- Regarding the USA, we must remember that it is the central government that has left the Paris Agreement. We have a very clear indication that probably more than 30 states will commit to the Paris Agreement, says André Aranha Corrêa do. Lago.
Despite the poor prospects of meeting the world community's original climate goals, the EU's climate commissioner will not give up either.
- I understand the temptation. But the problem is that even though we have made great and significant progress in addressing the climate challenges, especially in the EU, we have started far too late. So we are lagging behind. The problem is getting bigger rather than smaller, Wopke Hoekstra tells Ritzau and continues:
- We have no choice but to increase our efforts, because if we give up, the problem will only get bigger and hit us even harder.
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