Developed countries must honor their promise
The Glasgow Climate Pact that was adopted at COP 26 on Saturday will hopefully prove to be a milestone for the global response to climate change, as it acknowledges that the emissions commitments made by countries so far are nowhere near what are needed to avert this existential threat to humans and other life on Earth.
In reaching a consensus on the need to come up with increased targets and actions to prevent planetary warming exceeding 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels, the 26th session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, although it has not yet averted the impending climate cataclysm, has hopefully set us on the path to doing so.
Especially as the pact for the first time calls on countries to reduce their reliance on coal and stop subsidizing fossil fuels. And a promise has been made to end deforestation by 2030.