Pacific island states urge rich countries to expedite plans to cut emissions | Climate crisis

Some of the most vulnerable countries in the world warn that the rich countries are drawing their feet to produce new plans to combat the climate crisis, thus exposing the poor in greater danger, and some of the most vulnerable countries in the world have warned.

All governments are supposed to publish new plans this year on cutting greenhouse gas emissions, but so far not only a small majority has been done, and some of the plans submitted are insufficient for the necessary work group.

The Pacific Island countries wrote to the governments of the developed countries that urge them in haste, and to carry out very border cuts in the carbon. Also, the rich have not yet been determined on how to meet their obligations to ensure climate financing flows of $ 1.3 million annually to poor countries by 2035.

“We have repeatedly crossed the reality we are facing: our island’s safety depends on your collective obligations to take decisive measures. The only question now is: What will you do with this knowledge?” I asked the states, in a message that the guardian saw.

At the United Nations Climate Summit last year, the small island countries and the least developed rural groups came out of the frustration.

They are calling for tangible measures from the rich world long before this year Cop30 Summit, will be held in Brazil in November.

Many Pacific Islands also participate in the court case, in an attempt to hold rich countries to calculate their climate failures under international law.

All countries bear obligations under the Paris Carbon Reducing Agreement in line with the goal of reducing global temperatures to 1.5 ° C (2.7f) higher than pre -industry levels.

The United States has withdrawn from the Paris Agreement, but so far it has not followed it. However, the current obligations by the two countries to reduce emissions would lead to a high temperature of an estimated 2.8 degrees Celsius, and more stringent discounts are needed so far.

The United Nations asked the countries to reach its national plans, which are called NDCS contributions (NDCS), by September, as most of them were absent from the original deadline in February. The United Nations told the two countries earlier this year that it would be better to work for a longer period of their obligations and provide them in more detail, as well as possible policies to achieve them, rather than rushing to NDCS to meet the deadline in February.

The European Union is not expected to provide NDC until this summer, and this week China promised to publish its plan before COP30 without specifying the expected date.

The islands wrote that the time was extending to the palace: “It is time to meet these obligations. We call on all leaders, especially the leaders of the Group of Twenty, to provide NDCs as ambitious at the Economy level 1.5C, which covers all greenhouse gases before the United Nations General Assembly in September.

The islands also said that countries should be ready to review NDCS in COP30, if it turns out to be insufficient.

All countries have also agreed to gradually dispose of fossil fuels, and NDCS must have clear details about how governments planned to achieve this, and added the islands in their message.

They pointed out that the rich countries may falter at the expense of the help of the poor. “But the cost of delay and the cost of inaction is much higher. The planet is already under the risk of entering into the perishing cycle of natural disasters, collapse in the ecological system, the collapse of the diet, the economic collapse and the mass migrations that we all stare in the face. Humanity, vision, and cooperation is the solution to a safe future.”

Ministers and senior officials from more than 60 countries met in London on Thursday and Friday to discuss energy security. Ed Miliband, the UK’s Energy Minister, told the conference that there could be no national security without strong climate policies. The United Kingdom is one of the few developed countries that have so far provided NDCS to the United Nations. Civil society groups called for a detailed NDCS and focused on politics, rather than mysterious and long -term goals.