Climate Change

The fourth vice president and minister for the Ecological Transition, Teresa Ribera, has highlighted the importance of strengthening the social, natural and economic resilience of the planet with a view to the climate summit (COP26), in which countries must reduce their emissions.

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In a climate event organized by the British embassy in Spain, the Minister Ribera has met electronically with the president-elect of the COP26, the British Alok sharma, and with him Italian Environment Minister Roberto Cingolani to address the Road to the COP26 Climate Summit, which will take place next November in the city of Glasgow.

 

 

Political and business leaders will seek to facilitate the ecological transition

Addressing climate change requires changing citizens' individual lifestyles, "but it is the administrations, at the general level, that must facilitate this change" and explain "how it will benefit them," she asserted on Monday. Mayor of Glasgow, Susan AitkenAitken was one of the participants in the round table on leadership in companies and cities at the forum 'The road to COP26, with an eye on the upcoming UN Climate Change Conference convened in the Scottish city that she directs next November.

 

"We don't lack technology, but we need investment and resources," the mayor acknowledged, insisting that the obstacles to decarbonization are also opportunities "because they will force us to innovate and maximize" the efforts aimed at establishing "a new green economy" that improves the quality of life, health, and well-being of citizens.

 

Ribera is committed to strengthening the social and economic resilience of the planet

The fourth vice president and minister for the Ecological Transition, Teresa Ribera, has highlighted the importance of strengthening the social, natural and economic resilience of the planet with a view to the climate summit (COP26), in which countries must reduce their emissions.

 

Experts call for greater ambition to avert "climate catastrophe"

Representatives of civil society have agreed that governments and citizens must increase their ambition and efforts to achieve emissions neutrality by 2050 and have asserted that COP26 should serve as a "wake-up call" to avoid "climate catastrophe".

Greater ambition in reducing emissions and achieving the goals recommended by science is the conclusion reached by representatives of NGOs and environmental experts who participated this Monday in this online forum "The road to COP26: a year of recovery and ambition".

The meeting included three discussion panels in preparation for the COP26 in November, one of which analyzed the priorities of civil society at that event, which, according to the participants, should serve as a "catalyst" for all sectors to achieve the goal of climate neutrality.

 

For Mar Asunción Higueras, Head of Climate and Energy Program at WWF Spain, "it is not possible" to go from the current 1% reduction of greenhouse gases to 45% and stay below 1,5 degrees of global temperature increase "without a paradigm shift".

"COP26 is the main test against climate change, in which we are all tested and which we should all pass because our future is at stake," argued Víctor Viñuales, executive director of ECODES and member of the executive secretariat of the #ForClimate Community.