London, Thanasis Gavos
The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Boris Johnson said this afternoon from COP26 in Glasgow that with the climate conference entering the last 48 hours “negotiations are difficult and there is still much to be done” to make sufficient progress in the efforts to address the climate change.
The draft final statement of the conference recognizes that governments need to make more commitments so as not to lose sight of the goal of keeping global warming at one and a half degrees Celsius.
Mr Johnson said progress had been made, but that a “decisive impetus” was needed to end it.
He called on leaders to give their Glasgow negotiating teams room for maneuver so that there are sufficient commitments by Friday, when COP26 concludes.
“We must remove all obstacles,” said the British prime minister, “bridging the gap between where we are and where we should be.
He commented that it is “very annoying” to see countries congratulating each other on the “promise” they signed with the Paris Agreement six years ago, to now approach “bankruptcy”.
Answering press questions, however, he estimated that an important general agreement is possible and that the opportunity to make Glasgow “the beginning of the end of man-made climate change” is possible.
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