AT THE COP26 climate change summit in Glasgow, Scotland from October 31 to November 12, 2021, world leaders are gathered on several issues, front listed by the effects of climate change and the global pandemic.
For decades, they have planned and set goals for as far as 2050 for carbon neutrality, aiming to cut to zero carbon emissions which seriously damage our ozone layer and thus cause the heating up of earth as never before realized. This is a tall order especially for China which is considered the biggest emitter of poisonous carbon emissions on earth.
Thus, the discussions centered on preventing the heating up of the earth, maintaining its temperature to not more than 1.3 degrees centigrade and forestalling any bad effects of the countries' equally bad practices. Fossil fuels are also culprits in global warming and these nations have chipped in huge amounts to a common fund to combat bad climate change.
So, let's just see if the pledges of the country participants in Glasgow could stave off the destruction of the earth's aerial cover and prevent the massive negative effects of this climate change: flooding, drying up of ice glaciers, droughts, storms, etc.
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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, recognizing the severity and danger of climate change remarked on COP26 stage: We are digging our own graves, while the Prime Minister of Barbados expressed alarm over the swamping of her tiny nation with the rising sea levels, along with other Pacific islands such as Truk, the Marianas and Samoa.
US President Joe Biden, who himself is beleaguered by the stalling of his pet economic agenda, led other rich nations in pledging trillions of dollars to help curb emissions and prevent the overheating of the earth.
Meanwhile, methane emissions are also being looked at as causes of the world's inflammation along with coal.
By the way, the issue of the global pandemic was also discussed lengthily and seriously. Each nation participant was asked to submit its concrete action plan to combat it.
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And what about the Philippines, considered as one of the vulnerable countries to be affected by climate change? Well, it sent Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez to observe the proceedings and perhaps make side financial deals. Asus.