Representatives from over 150 countries that met at the Conference of the Parties to the UN Climate Convention (COP24) in Katowice, Poland, set out to implement a series of rules allowing the implementation of the Paris Agreement, Brazil”. The decision was unanimous.
With the adoption of the rules from 2020, signatory nations must work together to address global warming under the Paris Agreement. Under the approved measures, all nations, including developing countries, should detail ongoing efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The first report should be submitted by the end of 2024.
Another decision is for industrialized nations to report to the United Nations on the financial aid they plan to provide to developing countries. These reports shall be submitted every two years. This item can still be modified. Island nations and some other countries wanted higher targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But participants did not agree to this article.
COP25
Chile will be the host country of COP25, scheduled for November 11-22, 2019. Initially, the conference was scheduled to take place in Brazil. But the Brazilian government gave up the organization of the event for “fiscal and budgetary restrictions.” In his Twitter account, President-elect Jair Bolsonaro said on Saturday that his administration has given up hosting “the UN World Climate Conference as it would cost more than $ 500 million to Brazil.”
The organization of the event is always in charge of a different region, in a rotating way, and next year will be the turn of Latin America – this year, the summit was held in Eastern Europe.
This text was translated by machine from Brazilian Portuguese.