COP24: DIVIDED DELEGATES DELAY CRITICAL CLIMATE ACTIONS

摘要

December’s conference of the parties(COP)summit was a fractious affair,amid divisions between the developed and developing nations and between four fossil-fuel giants and everyone else.COP24 sought a plan of action for each country to meet its 2015 Paris Agreement targets.Published just weeks earlier,the damning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change(1PCC)report on the impacts of global warming brought real urgency to the summit.The report highlights differences in impact between temperatures rising i.5°C and 2°C.It concluded that,with the world on course to heat up by 3°C,we have less than 12 years-to 2030-to change direction.