Renewed commitments to electrification and climate science are vital outcomes from the latest round of UN talks<\/p>\n
The Cop31 climate talks have acquired something their delegates scarcely expected: a little political breathing space. The comeback by Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva<\/a> in the second round of Brazil\u2019s presidential race was important for many reasons. Victory for his opponent, Fl\u00e1vio Bolsonaro, would have marked a dangerous retreat from democracy. But Mr Bolsonaro\u2019s commitment to environmental deregulation would also have spelled disaster for the Amazon, making Lula\u2019s re-election a big win for the climate. Similarly, success by Democrats in the US midterms<\/a> means that Donald\u00a0Trump\u2019s destructive grip has been loosened. If\u00a0they win back the White House in 2028, the US should rejoin the UN process in time for Cop34.<\/p>\n While the diplomatic picture is less bleak than it might have been, the threat level remains high and rising. Ant\u00f3nio Guterres used his last Cop as UN secretary general to issue a pithy warning that \u201cit\u2019s make or bake time<\/a>\u201d. With the latest analysis pointing to\u00a0heating of 2.7C<\/a> by the end of the century \u2013 far beyond\u00a0the 1.5C target in the Paris agreement \u2013\u00a0governments face another crunch moment: by pivoting away from fossil fuels, they can still avert the\u00a0most dangerous impacts. Yet the UK\u2019s Andy\u00a0Burnham<\/a> was the only G7 leader to make the trip\u00a0to Turkey; the\u00a0French and German leaders chose to\u00a0attend\u00a0an EU\u00a0summit in Dublin<\/a> instead.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Renewed commitments to electrification and climate science are vital outcomes from the latest round of UN talks The Cop31 climate talks have acquired something their delegates scarcely expected: a little political breathing space. The comeback by Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva in the second round of Brazil\u2019s presidential race was important for many reasons. Victory … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}