The UN climate conference has been extended to Saturday. The Egyptian conference presidency announced on Friday afternoon that this was necessary to resolve the remaining blockages in the negotiations.
“Today we have to step up again because time is not on our side. I remain determined to bring this conference to an orderly conclusion tomorrow,” conference chair Sameh Shukri said in Sharm el-Sheikh on Friday. As talks are currently deadlocked, an extension of the UN climate conference to the weekend was expected by several days.
Gradual phasing out of coal
While the conference chair only favors an extension to Saturday, other participants are not ruling out deliberations on Sunday. As mentioned, there is already an official concept for a final declaration. It advocates a gradual phase-out of coal. The demand of a number of representatives to record the farewell to oil and gas was not met. Previously, experts had only expected a weak result from the UN climate conference.
Low-emission prosperity possible
According to a research team from the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU) and the World Data Lab (WDL) in Egypt, it is possible to be rich on a low-emission path. “An average world citizen emits 7.4 tons of greenhouse gases per year.
However, the range is large: in the US it is 18.6 tons, in Egypt 4.1 tons,” it said. By combining best practices from developed economies, such as Dutch transport, with the land use of South Korea and Swedish building insulation , this would reduce the footprint of advanced countries to less than five tons per capita per year.
Source: Krone
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