At COP27, world leaders call for faster action on climate change
On the first day of COP27, the UN climate talks, world leaders urged faster action to cut pollution that is is warming the planet while acknowledging the global energy effects of the war in Ukraine and the uneven effects of climate change to date.
SHARM EL SHEIKH - World Leaders Stand come together on Monday to tackle the climate change crisis, amid a sea of other pressing challenges that threaten to roll back already insufficient measures to steer the world's economy away from fossil fuels.
Russia's invasion of Ukraine casts a worrying shadow over these talks. , itself financed by the sale of Russian gas. The conflict has destabilized the global energy market, spurred inflation and led some to call for more oil and gas drilling. Meanwhile, poor countries suffering from climate effects are increasingly frustrated with rich countries whose emissions are causing global warming. And relations between the two biggest polluters, the United States and China, have sunk to a new low.
"We are on a highway to the climate hell with your foot on the accelerator,” United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told the gathering of more than 100 princes, presidents and prime ministers on Monday at the summit, the 27th session of the Conference of the Parties to the united nations climate convention, known as COP27. .
Scattered around the middle of the sprawling conference center were several pavilions dedicated to promoting oil and Saudi Arabia had paid for an unusually large space to describe itself as an energy hub OPEC had a space showing what it called its international development fund Mauritania boasted of its natural gas reserves .
So As European countries scramble to get rid of Russian natural gas, rising gas prices are whetting the appetite for new gas production elsewhere, from the North Sea to the Gulf of Mexico to the West African coast. Prince bin Zayed of the United Arab Emirates has been adamant that his country will continue to produce gas as long as there is a market for it. He called his country a "responsible" gas producer.
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, who reversed his earlier decision not to attend the summit, told delegates that Russia's invasion of Ukraine should spur developed countries to invest more in renewable energy.
"Putin's heinous war in Ukraine and the Rising energy prices around the world are not a reason to slow down climate change," Sunak said. "They are a reason to act faster."
Mr. António Guterres stressed that climate change was not a separate problem that could be postponed, but was linked to the crises of war, unrest and hunger. "It is the central challenge of our century," he said. "It is unacceptable, outrageous and self-defeating to put it on the back burner. Indeed, many conflicts today are linked to growing climate chaos. Nariman El-Mofty/Associated Press
Mr. António Guterres has urged...
On the first day of COP27, the UN climate talks, world leaders urged faster action to cut pollution that is is warming the planet while acknowledging the global energy effects of the war in Ukraine and the uneven effects of climate change to date.
SHARM EL SHEIKH - World Leaders Stand come together on Monday to tackle the climate change crisis, amid a sea of other pressing challenges that threaten to roll back already insufficient measures to steer the world's economy away from fossil fuels.
Russia's invasion of Ukraine casts a worrying shadow over these talks. , itself financed by the sale of Russian gas. The conflict has destabilized the global energy market, spurred inflation and led some to call for more oil and gas drilling. Meanwhile, poor countries suffering from climate effects are increasingly frustrated with rich countries whose emissions are causing global warming. And relations between the two biggest polluters, the United States and China, have sunk to a new low.
"We are on a highway to the climate hell with your foot on the accelerator,” United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told the gathering of more than 100 princes, presidents and prime ministers on Monday at the summit, the 27th session of the Conference of the Parties to the united nations climate convention, known as COP27. .
Scattered around the middle of the sprawling conference center were several pavilions dedicated to promoting oil and Saudi Arabia had paid for an unusually large space to describe itself as an energy hub OPEC had a space showing what it called its international development fund Mauritania boasted of its natural gas reserves .
So As European countries scramble to get rid of Russian natural gas, rising gas prices are whetting the appetite for new gas production elsewhere, from the North Sea to the Gulf of Mexico to the West African coast. Prince bin Zayed of the United Arab Emirates has been adamant that his country will continue to produce gas as long as there is a market for it. He called his country a "responsible" gas producer.
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, who reversed his earlier decision not to attend the summit, told delegates that Russia's invasion of Ukraine should spur developed countries to invest more in renewable energy.
"Putin's heinous war in Ukraine and the Rising energy prices around the world are not a reason to slow down climate change," Sunak said. "They are a reason to act faster."
Mr. António Guterres stressed that climate change was not a separate problem that could be postponed, but was linked to the crises of war, unrest and hunger. "It is the central challenge of our century," he said. "It is unacceptable, outrageous and self-defeating to put it on the back burner. Indeed, many conflicts today are linked to growing climate chaos. Nariman El-Mofty/Associated Press
Mr. António Guterres has urged...
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