'Hopes of 1.5C target are dead': Scientists and campaigners furious at climate summit failures 🌎🌡️ 'We are now entering a much warmer and more dangerous world,' warns scientist as talks look set to drag past deadline with little hope of meaningful deal
Professor Kevin Anderson, of the University of Manchester, said: “A year on from Glasgow COP26, a further 40 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide has been spewed into the atmosphere, the post-Covid skies are again streaked with aircraft vapour trails, and the oil and gas majors are enthusiastically drilling to hell and back, thanks to new licenses issued by so-called climate-progressive governments.
“Offering superficially measured accounts of ‘this minor success’, ‘that improvement in wording’, or of a ‘few financial crumbs begrudgingly thrown at poorer nations’, only feeds into the business-as-usual circus that annual COP cycles have become.”James Dyke, associate professor at Exeter University’s Global Systems Institute, said: “I struggle to understand how anyone can continue to argue that 1.5 is still alive.
He said that if the organiser of COP, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, could not produce “transformative change, then we must urgently organise and generate effective action using other means”., which are among those hardest hit by climate change, accused developed countries of “furiously tying to stall progress” on establishing a loss and damage fund.
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