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Economy

Climate injustice

at Glasgow COP-out

by Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram

This article was published originally on:
https://www.ksjomo.org/post/climate-injustice-at-glasgow-cop-out

SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR: ful dereliction of duty,… nowhere is now expected to rise by 2.7°C
The planet is already 1.1°C warmer near enough to avoid climate disas- from pre-industrial levels by centu-
than in pre-industrial times. July ter”. ry’s end. Authoritative projections
2021 was the hottest month ever suggest that if all COP26 long-term
recorded in 142 years. Despite the A hundred civil society groups pledges and targets are met, the
pandemic slowdown, 2020 was the lambasted the Glasgow outcome: planet will still warm by 2.1℃ by
hottest year so far, ending the warm- “Instead of a multilateral agreement 2100.
est decade (2011-2020) ever. that puts forward a clear path to
address the climate crisis, we are The United Nations Environment
Betrayal in Glasgow left with a document that takes us Programme suggests a strong
Summing up widespread views of further down the path of climate chance of global warming disas-
the recently concluded Glasgow cli- injustice.” trously rising over 1.5°C in the next
mate summit, former Irish President two decades. Earlier policy targets –
Mary Robinson observed, “People Even if countries fulfil their Paris to halve global carbon emissions by
will see this as a historically shame- Agreement pledges, global warming 2030, and reach ‘net-zero’ emissions

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