GLASGOW-COP26 - Climate targets agreed at Cop26 are too weak to prevent disastrous levels of global heating, the three architects of the Paris agreement have warned.
Christiana Figueres, the former UN climate chief who oversaw the 2015 Paris summit, and Laurence Tubiana, who penned the agreement, have told The Guardian that world leaders will have to negotiate again next year if the world is to avoid exceeding its 1.5C temperature limit.
Laurent Fabius, who also oversaw Paris, added: “In the present circumstances [targets] must be enhanced next year.”
The British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is urging countries to “pull out all the stops” at Cop26 in order to limit global warming.
After world leaders’ opening scenes at the UN climate conference last week, negotiators are “doing the hard yards… to turn promises into action on climate change”, said the prime minister.
