Coalition for carbon neutrality - net zero emissions by 2050 !
The United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres highlighted the need to further extend the growing alliance for carbon neutrality, supported by optimistic Nationally Determined Contributions, has set a target for achieving net zero emissions by 2050. In the months ahead, he has emphasized the importance of virtual negotiations to resolve the limitations faced by the pandemic.
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has over 200 countries who are ‘party’ to the Convention. The Parties to the Convention meet every year (with the exception of 2020 due to Covid-19) at the Conference of the Parties (COP). The meeting of the UNFCCC in Glasgow in November 2021 will be COP26.
The UNFCCC takes scientific advice from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which every five years submits its Assessment Reports (AR), with AR6 due in 2021/22. In 2018, the IPCC released a special analysis on sustaining a global temperature rise of 1.5 degrees C, highlighting the substantial gap between an increase of a 1.5 degrees C rise and a rise of 2 degrees C , and the drastic possibility of reaching any of these targets. It also proposed a global carbon target of 'net zero' by 2050.
“By COP26 at the latest, all countries need to come forward with significantly more ambitious nationally determined contributions, with 2030 targets consistent with a net zero pathway” Secretary-General António Guterres stated.
