Berlin: Patricia Espinosa, head of the United Nations Climate Change, has said that the deadline set by some of the world’s top polluting countries and the president of the United States to eliminate greenhouse gas emissions. Expectations have risen that Joe Biden’s decision to reconnect Washington to the Paris Agreement has met the ambitious objectives of the agreement.
An agreement reached five years ago in the French capital aims to keep global warming at less than two degrees Celsius by pre-industrial levels by the end of the century and ideally not more than 1.5 degrees Celsius. Experts say the world is far behind in achieving this goal and the average temperature has already risen by one degree Celsius and strong action is needed in the next 30 years.
But the announcement by China, the world’s biggest polluter, is a ray of hope that it will phase out emissions by 2060. At the same time, Japan and South Korea have announced to do so a decade ago, which has raised the expectations of the people campaigning on the issue of Climate Change. At the same time, the announcement by US President-elect Biden has raised hopes that the US will rejoin the Paris Agreement.
Earlier, US President Donald Trump had separated the US from the agreement. “These announcements are truly extraordinary,” Espinosa said. A few months ago, I don’t think anyone really thought we would see such announcements at this time, especially in the midst of an epidemic. ”
