John Kerry noted that 2020 may have seen a drop in global emissions due to Covid.
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The world s big emitting countries, including China, India, Russia and Japan need to really step up and begin to lower greenhouse gas emissions, US Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry has said as he called on all nations to raise their ambition to fight against climate change.
Kerry on Friday joined UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres for a special virtual event to mark the United States rejoining the Paris Agreement. We need the United States and every country to determine they will get on a path toward net-zero emissions by 2050. That is not something we will do by countries just stepping up and saying, Hey! We commit, here we are. Yeah, we ll do it by 2050 . That doesn t work. That doesn t cut it. That is not the way that we get to go to Glasgow, Kerry said.
First published on Fri 19 Feb 2021 14.06 EST
When the outgoing head of the OECD urged countries this week to “put a big fat price on carbon”, it might not have gone down well with the Australian vying to replace him.
Mathias Cormann, one of the final four contenders to replace Ángel Gurría as OECD secretary general, was finance minister in the conservative government that abolished a carbon pricing scheme that had driven cuts in Australia’s emissions.
Despite his record of campaigning against the previous Labor government’s “job-destroying carbon tax”, Cormann has put environmental action at the centre of his OECD campaign, arguing the body “can and must provide important global leadership to drive ambitious and effective action on climate change”.
COP26 President Alok Sharma welcomes Nepal’s positive action on climate change
Alok Sharma’s first visit to Nepal as COP26 President to see the effects of climate change on the Himalayan region
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19 February 2021
Alok Sharma’s first visit to Nepal as COP26 President to see the effects of climate change on the Himalayan region
He met with Nepal’s Prime Minister Oli, President Bidhya Devi Bhandari, other government Ministers and officials, community leaders and civil society
Supporting women’s voices in climate action ahead of COP26 was a key part of visit
The COP26 President Alok Sharma visited Nepal this week to observe the effects of global warming on mountainous communities first-hand and learn more about the country’s ambitious work to tackle climate change.
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