China announces its first detailed goal to reduce emissions

With China’s announcement of the first tangible goal to reduce emissions, world leaders who gathered at the United Climate Summit said on Wednesday that they were getting more serious in combating climate change and the cruel, fatal weather that comes with him.

In the video speech, Chinese President Xi Jinping announced that the largest polluted country in the world will aim to reduce emissions by seven to 10 percent by 2035.

China produces more than 31 percent of carbon dioxide emissions in the world, and has long increased.

The detailed goal was the first time that China has pledged to reduce emissions, but the reduction was much lower than a 30 percent reduction by 2035, which some scientists said was necessary to align China with the global -agreed goal to reduce temperature to 1.5 degrees Celsius.

This announcement came with more than 100 world leaders gathered to talk about increasing urgency and the need for stronger efforts to reduce the inscription of heat besieged gases.

With the major international climate negotiations in Brazil for a period of 6 weeks, United Nations Secretary -General Antonio Guterres held a special leadership summit on Wednesday during the General Assembly to focus on specific plans to curb emissions of coal, oil and natural gas.

After more than six hours of speeches, promises and advertisements, about 100 countries-responsible for about two thirds of the world’s emissions-gave plans or a kind of obligations to increase fossil fuel emissions and combat climate change.

Xi pledged that China would increase its power and solar energy six times than the levels of 2020, making pollution -free compounds prevailing and “creating a mainly adaptive community.”

Then Europe followed the new climate fighting plan, less detailed, not completely official. Ursula von der Lyen, head of the European Commission, said last week that its member states agreed that its goals in cutting their emissions would range between 66 and 72 percent. The European Union will officially send its plan before the November negotiations.

Jake Schmidt, the first strategic director of the International Climate at the Council of Defense of Natural Resources, said that while the new promises move in the right direction and show a stronger commitment to combating climate change, “these goals will not be sufficient to maintain our safety from climate destruction.”

Simon Stel, the United Nations climate head, said the Chinese plan “is a clear indication that the future global economy will go into clean energy. And that the strongest and fastest climate work means that economic growth, jobs, reasonable energy, safe and more clean air are better for all of us, everywhere.”

But others were scary.

“The climate goal in China is very shy, given the country’s extraordinary record on clean energy,” said Juan Manuel Santos, former president of Colombia, President of The Elders Group. “China should go further and faster.”

The European Union Climate Commissioner and Bakostra said in a statement that the contribution made by China “is no less than what we believe can be achieved and necessary. This level of ambition is clearly disappointing, and given the huge imprint in China, it makes access to the climate goals in the world more difficult.”

Trump’s challenge to climate

The leader of Xi and Brazil also made statements on Wednesday afternoon, which may have indicated to US President Donald Trump Attacks On renewable energy and the concept of climate change.

“While some countries act against them, the international community should continue to focus on the right direction,” said Xi.

“No one is safe from the impact of climate change,” said Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who is hosting the next climate conference.

“The walls on the border will not stop dehydration or storms,” ​​he said. “Nature does not bow to bombs or warships. There is no country standing above another.”

At a press conference, Lula said that he called both Trump and Shi to negotiate the climate in November, saying it is important for the leaders to listen to the scholars.

The United Nations needs pledges by the end of the month

Under the Paris Climate Agreement 2015, 195 countries are supposed to make new five -year plans for how to curb carbon emissions from burning coal, oil and natural gas.

UN officials said that the two countries really need to obtain their plans by the end of the month so that the United Nations can calculate how much the land is going to warm the right track if the countries do what they promised. Former US President Joe Biden presented America’s plan late last year before leaving his post, but the Trump administration has distanced the plan.

Before 2015, the world was on the road for 4 degrees Celsius of warming since pre -industry times, but now it has been reduced to 2.6 degrees Celsius.

However, the Paris Agreement set a target to reduce warming to 1.5 ° C since the mid -nineteenth century, and the world has already pushed about 1.3 ° C since then.