Today marked the opening of the Bonn Climate Change Conference (COP23) , chaired by Fiji. This COP23 aims to further develop the Paris Agreement and curb global warming through international cooperation.
At the opening of this Climate Summit, there was a sense of urgency and a clear need for immediate action to halt the advance of climate change. Want to learn more about this first meeting of COP23?
Opening of the Bonn Climate Summit
COP23 will continue until November 17 to finalize more detailed aspects of the Paris Agreement and begin addressing action plans to combat climate change . In particular, it will focus on everything related to financial contributions and meeting targets, as well as addressing the fallout from the United States' withdrawal from the pact, which has left a political vacuum and a financial shortfall.
Climate change and global warming are having increasingly devastating effects, and we no longer have time for predictions and speculation; we must take action. This summit must establish all financial and mitigation commitments to address the effects of global warming . To achieve this, we need a "manual of instructions" so that the Paris Agreement has a tool to work with in the fight against climate change.
Increase the goals of the Paris Agreement
Even if emissions are reduced as promised, it will not be enough to prevent global warming from rising more than two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. “Let’s move forward. Let’s complete our work. Let’s raise our ambitions,” concluded Espinosa, Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC , who stressed that “there has never been such a degree of urgency ” and described recent natural disasters, such as the series of hurricanes in the Caribbean, as “a preview of what is to come.”
