Annonce

Log ud Log ind
Log ud Log ind
Samfundsansvar

Paris Agreement architect: ‘Carbon neutrality is the target to go for

Joachim Kattrup

torsdag 10. oktober 2019 kl. 10:09

According to EURACTIV.com European leaders are expected to talk about climate change at the next European Council meeting (where Brexit will dominate) scheduled 17-18 October, following the UN Climate Action Summit and ahead of the Climate Conference in Santiago de Chile in December.

But inner battles prevail among member states that see Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic holding out against a 2050 net-zero target while Slovakia, Poland and the Czech Republic are pushing back against a more ambitious 2030 target.

These tensions prevented the European Union to present a more ambitious climate package at the recent UN Climate Action Summit (23 September) in New York, thus preventing the block to fill the void left by the United States and take the lead on climate action.

In an interview with EURACTIV, Paris Agreement key architect Laurence Tubiana gives her take-away from the UN Climate Action Summit and the role of the European Union.

Laurence Tubiana is the CEO of the European Climate Foundation (ECF), the Chair of the Board of Governors at the French Development Agency (AFD) and France’s former Climate Change Ambassador and Special Representative for COP21. In 2018, President Macron appointed her to France’s High Council for Climate Action.

Critics say that the most economically advanced countries have not responded to the climate call with the expected ambition. Do you share this analysis?

The United Nations Secretary-General set the bar where it needs to be ahead of this Climate Summit, and G20 countries’ response to his call was definitely disappointing. Some good announcements were made, but not from most advanced economies, with most of the ambition actually coming from small developing countries.

Major G20 countries such as the USA, Brazil, Canada, Australia, Argentina or Mexico didn’t even come or present any commitments. Others made announcements that remain too incremental and insufficient to address the challenge ahead.

In her speech, the young activist Greta Thunberg said “this is where we draw the line”.[1] The distinction is now clear between the countries that are taking the lead and those lagging behind, simply not hearing the anger from the youth on the streets or the dire warnings of scientists, and their demands for action.

It is clear that we need to keep the pressure up and push large economies, including the European Union, to show more ambition and take the lead in coming months in line with the objectives set by the Secretary General Antonio Guterres on submitting renewed and more ambitious commitments by 2020 (both nationally determined contributions (NDCs) and long-term strategies), stopping new coal projects and mobilising the required finance.

https://www.euractiv.com/section/climate-environment/interview/laurence-tubiana-carbon-neutrality-is-the-target-to-go-for/

Få dagens vigtigste
økonominyheder hver dag kl. 12

Bliv opdateret på aktiemarkedets bevægelser, skarpe indsigter
og nyeste tendenser fra Økonomisk Ugebrev – helt gratis.

Jeg giver samtykke til, at I sender mig mails med de seneste historier fra Økonomisk Ugebrev.  Lejlighedsvis må I gerne sende mig gode tilbud og information om events. Samtidig accepterer jeg ØU’s Privatlivspolitik. Du kan til enhver tid afmelde dig med et enkelt klik.

[postviewcount]

Jobannoncer

Udløber snart
SUN-AIR i Billund søger en kreditorbogholder
Region Syddanmark
Finansiel controller med stærk forretningsforståelse
Region Sjælland
Udløber snart
Dansk Sygeplejeråd søger en regnskabskonsulent med digitalt mindset og med erfaring i regnskabsprocessen fra A-Z (barselsvikariat)
Region Hovedstaden

Mere fra ØU Samfundsansvar

Log ind

Har du ikke allerede en bruger? Opret dig her.

FÅ VORES STORE NYTÅRSUDGAVE AF FORMUE

Her er de 10 bedste aktier i 2022

Tilbuddet udløber om:
dage
timer
min.
sek.

Analyse af og prognoser for Fixed Income (statsrenter og realkreditrenter)

Direkte adgang til opdaterede analyser fra toneangivende finanshuse:

Goldman Sachs

Fidelity

Danske Bank

Morgan Stanley

ABN Amro

Jyske Bank

UBS

SEB

Natixis

Handelsbanken

Merril Lynch 

Direkte adgang til realkreditinstitutternes renteprognoser:

Nykredit

Realkredit Danmark

Nordea

Analyse og prognoser for kort rente, samt for centralbankernes politikker

Links:

RBC

Capital Economics

Yardeni – Central Bank Balance Sheet 

Investing.com: FED Watch Monitor Tool

Nordea

Scotiabank