COOP25. Half of the emissions in the hands of governments that ignore the planet

The twenty-fifth Climate Summit has come to an end. He had to do it last Friday but it was not until Sunday, when the parties reached an agreement and the resulting agreement was somewhat controversial.

The worst reception was that of the environmental associations that they consider to be a step backwards from the Paris Agreement, which was approved at COP 21.

The most controversial point addressed at the Summit was the markets for greenhouse gas emissions. The idea was to develop mechanisms so that countries can exchange CO2 emission rights although, in the end, no agreement has been reached. It was the most thorny issue and, as the representatives of 200 governments have not agreed, this issue will have to wait until 2020.

Another of the Summit’s challenges required countries to present harder emission cut plans. His result was also frustrated. In the end, only 84 countries (42% of the attendees) have committed and among them are Spain, the United Kingdom, France or Germany. From Mendel4 Coworking Sarrià we want to emphasize that neither the United States, nor China, nor India, nor Russia, among others, joined this commitment. Governments that alone are jointly responsible for 55% of the world’s emissions.