COP 28 is a real test of the world's seriousness in saving the planet from climate change

Arabia Weather - The world faces a real test in November 2023, as hopes are divided and ambitions rise regarding the expected results of the COP28 climate summit.

This summit, which the UAE will host at the end of this November, is considered a test of the world's seriousness in saving the planet from a real threat, which is "climate change."

María Ángeles Jiménez, a researcher in environmental sciences at the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain, comments on the complex political situation affecting the climate summit by saying:

“While the world is experiencing a complex political situation, this could affect the climate summit negotiations. However, we must realize that we are facing a real existential challenge, climate change, which requires the world to take serious decisions.”

This year witnessed a list of extreme climate phenomena and recorded the highest global temperatures in human history. The El Niño climate phenomenon, which leads to rising temperatures, has affected these phenomena. This development shows that climate change has become a real existential threat, explains María Angeles Jiménez.

She adds: “We have to reduce the use of fossil fuels, and this is not an option but a necessity. Everyone must work in the next few years to replace fossil fuels with renewable energy. This requires effort to reduce the cost of renewable energy technologies, as they are still expensive and many countries cannot afford it.” Developing bear it.”

Kiran Khamis, a researcher at the University of Birmingham's School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, warns that the current trend the world is taking will lead to temperatures rising well beyond the 2°C increase compared to the pre-industrial period.

Kiran points out that with the temperature rising by approximately 1.2 degrees Celsius so far, the world is heading towards quickly exceeding the important threshold of 1.5 degrees Celsius, and this is considered dangerous. The Paris Agreement set 1.5 degrees Celsius as a maximum temperature increase that must be exceeded, and the COP28 summit will provide the first global assessment of the world’s commitment to the goals of the agreement in this context. If action is not taken effectively to limit rising temperatures, the results may not be positive.

As for the current global geopolitical situation, Kiran points out that it may influence the discussions at the summit, but at the same time he hopes that the world will be able to move beyond this geopolitical context and seriously address the great environmental challenges we face, as environmental risk is vital and serious and cannot be avoided. ignore him.

Source: al-ain