The landmark Paris climate treaty has helped lower global emissions and slow climate change, but is now threatened like never before, UK climate envoy Rachel Kyte warned.
The world's landmark Paris Agreement is 'more fragile' than it has ever been and disagreements risk 'imploding' it, the UK's climate ambassador has warned. The seminal treaty obliges countries to produce regular plans on how they will cut greenhouse gas emissions in order to slow climate change. Since it was signed in 2015, predicted levels of global warming have fallen, the cost of wind and solar have plummeted and net zero targets have proliferated.
But some Gulf States and India have hit back at accusations their national climate plans aren't ambitious enough. 'So this is at risk of imploding the agreement... if you put the two together, Paris itself is quite fragile,' she said. Her warning comes after a difficult time for global climate efforts, including the annual COP summits that produced and make progress on the Paris Agreement.
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