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COP26 Debrief: The Good News and the Very Bad News

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AuthorRobyn Eckersley
DOI10.1177/20419058221091634
Date01 March 2022
Published date01 March 2022
22 POLITICAL INSIGHT • APRIL 2022
There was a great deal at stake at
COP26 in Glasgow in November.
The negotiators faced a crowded
and pent-up agenda, delayed
by the pandemic. Many parties to the
Paris Agreement had failed to enhance
their mitigation pledges for 2030, known
as nationally determined contributions
(NDCs), as agreed in Paris in 2015. (i.e.
remove by 2020). Despite their promise
in 2009, developed countries had failed
to mobilise $100 billion annually by 2020
to assist developing countries with their
mitigation and adaptation.
COP26 Debrief: The
Good News and the
Very Bad News
Robyn Eckersley looks back at November’s COP26 climate conference
in Glasgow and finds few reasons to be cheerful.
As if to remind everyone of the high
stakes, 2021 was a year marked by extreme
climate disasters. Swiss Re, a major insurer
of insurers, reported global economic
losses of $259 billion from extreme
weather events in 2021, up 20% from
2020. The US alone reported losses of $145
billion.
These disasters all occurred with
average global surface temperatures
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