The German climate researcher Hans Joachim Schellnhuber comes at the climate change conference COP24 with a sharp criticism of the world’s countries for their lack of action to limit CO2 emissions.
– the Lack of action is insane, says Schellnhuber, who is the founder of the Potsdam institute’s research department for climate.
– There are virtually no states, that makes enough. We are burying our planet, he continues.
Nearly 200 countries have since the beginning of the month gathered in the Polish Katowice to get on with the climate. However, the meetings that take place in the united nations, have lost their value, believe Schellnhuber.
– the Race may be run for the format with the climate change meetings. There is a raging standstill here in Katowice, says the researcher.
He has been with since the first conference on climate change in 1995, but is considering pulling the plug.
– This is probably my last climate change conference, because, once again, I have a massive dejavu experience. Everyone has extremely busy, everyone is very stressed, and for the climate may have to be made a millimeter of progress, he says.
At COP24, countries must among other things agree on how the countries measure and calculates their emissions of climate-damaging gases, and how they must continuously report new climate change targets.
the Rules should make it possible to live up to the goal in the treaty of paris to keep global warming below 2 degrees celsius and rather closer to 1.5 degrees at the end of this century.
We have already exhausted the first degree, and the globe has at the moment and heading towards a warming of about 3 degrees.
If warming is to be kept at 1.5 degrees, CO2 emissions in 2030 has been dropped 45 percent compared to 2010.
