(Finance) – It ended today in Copenhagen the meeting of environment ministers to take stock of the implementation of the climate commitments made at COP26 in Glasgow last November and to prepare the next Cop27 from Sharm El-Sheikh in Egypt, from 7 to 18 November 2022, therefore six months after the two appointments. The objective of the meeting – reads an open letter from the COP26 president, the Briton Alok Sharmaand from that of Cop27, the Egyptian foreign minister Sameh Shoukrypublished by the UN – was to “follow up and accelerate the implementation of commitments in this critical decade. We all know that much more needs to be done to ensure that we keep 1.5 ° C on hand, protect the most vulnerable and ensure that financial flows reach the necessary scale. But we also know that we can get there if we act quickly and act together. “
The meeting was attended by about forty delegations from different countries, mainly Western, where the absence of Brazil And Indiawhile the Russia was not invited. For Italy, the ambassador participated Alessandro Modiano, special envoy for the climate. The topics discussed in the two days in Copenhagen were those of adaptation to climate change, mitigation of the effects, reduction of emissions and climate finance. “The aim was above all to keep governments focused on the commitments made to the Cop26. There was talk of how to achieve the goal of the Fund of 100 billion per year for the decarbonisation of the poorest countries “, explained Modiano to ANSA, a fund that is part of the Paris Agreement approved in 2016 but which has not never found implementation.
In the background the war in Ukraine and the consequences of the conflict on the path of decarbonization economies. For Modiano “there is a push to find new sources of gas supply, but also a push to accelerate on renewables. The war leads to a faster ecological transition”. More pessimistic before the meeting was the US climate envoy who in an interview with the Guardian said that the war has set some countries back in efforts to cut emissions by threatening to push the world off course to achieve. climate goals.
The Copenhagen meeting coincided with the 30th anniversary of theUNFCCC, the United Nations Convention on Climate Change in the framework in which this type of meetings take place. THE next appointments international on the subject of climate are the meeting of the G7 environment ministers on 26 and 27 May in Berlin and the Stockholm + 50 meeting from 31 May, while a preparatory meeting of Cop27 in Sharm is scheduled for mid-June in Bonn. The G20 Environment Working Group will be held at the end of June in preparation for the meeting of ministers at the end of August.