Global S&T Development Trend Analysis Platform of Resources and Environment
COP26 must deliver on resilience – UNGA can tee it... | |
admin | |
2021-09-17 | |
发布年 | 2021 |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | 欧洲 |
领域 | 气候变化 |
正文(英文) | Adaptation, resilience and loss & damage are priority issues at COP26, but progress to date has been inadequate. At UNGA, world leaders can address this in 5 simple steps. Any illusions that climate change would be a slow-moving disaster, unfolding gradually like water slowly erodes sediment, can now be put to rest. The world that climate scientists have been warning us about is here. It arrived earlier and is hitting harder than expected. Virtually every week brings devastation from extreme weather, wildfires, floods and drought. The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) reports that disasters have increased fivefold since 1970, accounting for $3.6 trillion in economic losses, to say nothing of the lives lost. The risk of breaching catastrophic climate ‘tipping points’ is also rising. For example, there’s evidence the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is weakening, which would lead to increased sea level rise and much colder temperatures in Europe and North America. Past choices to delay emission cuts have made these impacts inevitable. There is still time to head off far worse scenarios. But the failure to invest in resilience and adaptation was also a choice. If this is what an average global temperature rise of just over 1 degree Celsius looks like, decision-makers must think much more seriously about the realities of a 2 or even 3-degree world. They are not yet doing so. COP26: the adaptation & resilience agendaCOP26 is billed as the moment that consigns coal to history and keeps hopes of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees alive. Those are worthy goals. But it must also mark the beginning of a new sense of seriousness about investing in adaptation and resilience to climate impacts. Ahead of UNGA, that looks unlikely. While the Paris Agreement ostensibly put climate adaptation and resilience on par with mitigation as a global priority, most attention remains on decarbonisation. The lion’s share of climate finance still goes to mitigation, and the adaptation finance gap is not narrowing. From 2015-2019 the G7 countries provided $14 billion in adaptation finance. Meanwhile, $17 trillion has been spent globally on economic recovery, with only one-tenth of that total classified as green spending. This is not to ignore important initiatives underway. The Global Commission on Adaptation has provided compelling evidence of the economic benefits of resilience, and the Coalition for Climate Resilient Investment is working on tools to help with pricing physical climate risk in investment decision-making. The UK hosted the Climate and Development Ministerial in March 2021 as a platform for addressing concerns voiced by the most climate vulnerable countries, including climate impacts, finance, and debt sustainability. This culminated in a roadmap that has set out the action path for high ambition outcomes on these issues by COP26. Countries must build these efforts, particularly the Climate and Development Ministerial roadmap, at UNGA. The legitimacy UNGA provides is unparalleled. World leaders must seize this opportunity to profile adaptation and resilience issues. It is also one of the last major landmarks on the road to COP that can credibly set the level of ambition. 5 steps to address adaptation and resilience at UNGA
There will be more to do after UNGA. For example, the World Bank-IMF meetings in October are an important chance to show support for key financial reforms, such as efforts by the IMF to integrate climate into its financial surveillance. It’s past time to show that resilience is a systemic challenge, and a global one, not just something to tackle at the project level. To deliver, we must first get the diplomacy right. |
URL | 查看原文 |
来源平台 | E3G |
文献类型 | 新闻 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/337920 |
专题 | 气候变化 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | admin. COP26 must deliver on resilience – UNGA can tee it.... 2021. |
条目包含的文件 | 条目无相关文件。 |
个性服务 |
推荐该条目 |
保存到收藏夹 |
查看访问统计 |
导出为Endnote文件 |
谷歌学术 |
谷歌学术中相似的文章 |
[admin]的文章 |
百度学术 |
百度学术中相似的文章 |
[admin]的文章 |
必应学术 |
必应学术中相似的文章 |
[admin]的文章 |
相关权益政策 |
暂无数据 |
收藏/分享 |
除非特别说明,本系统中所有内容都受版权保护,并保留所有权利。
修改评论