Another failure. From the international climate conference COP25, staged at Madrid in the last two weeks, drastic and immediate decisions were expected to reduce CO2 emissions globally. Instead, the maxi-summit resulted in yet another hole in the water.
“I am disappointed – said the secretary general of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres – The international community has missed an important opportunity to show that it wants to fight the climate crisis”.
In the end, the line according to which no agreement it's better than a bad deal. All the countries (or almost) said they were willing to speed up the times, but no one has made concrete commitments. They won again the lobby American, Japanese, Brazilian, Russian, Indian and Chinese. All those countries that they intend have won shirking responsibility for reducing greenhouse gases.
The discussion has stalled on the future of coal trade, highly harmful to the environment. The main defendants are Brazil e Australia, which in the name of their enormous forest heritage claim to autonomously manage the sums for the fight against CO2 emissions.
A few steps forward also in the discussion on mfinancial mechanisms charged to the richest and most polluting countries, in favor of those poor and threatened by rising seas or drought. An evident reality but denied by many, starting with the US of Donald Trump, supported on this front by Japan and Saudi Arabia.
The discussion on how to save the planet is thus postponed to the next conference, the one to be held at Glasgow in 2020, the deadline for achieving the objectives set at the Paris conference in 2015.
"Science spoke clearly in Madrid but was once again ignored", commented the young activist Greta Thunberg, leader of the movement Fridays For Future. “Whatever happens, we will never give up. We've only just begun."
