Leaders of the Group of 20 major economies are meeting for a second day of talks on Sunday, facing an uphill task of overcoming their differences over combating global warming ahead of a crucial UN climate summit.
The first day of the Rome summit which constituted the first in-person meeting between heads of state and government since the outbreak of the COVID pandemic focused mainly on health and the economy while climate and environment remained at the top and central of Sunday’s global agenda.
The G-20 group made up of Brazil, China, India, Germany and the United States accounts for an estimated 80% of what scientists say is required to dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions that would help prevent a climate catastrophe.
“The latest reports are disappointing, with little sense of urgency in the face of an existential emergency,”Oscar Soria
“Recent reports are disappointing and unurgent,” said Oscar Soria of Avaaz, an activist network.
A fifth draft of the final statement of the G-20, seen by Reuters on Saturday, was not harsher than previous versions in expressing concern over climate change, softening it in certain key areas such as the need for a net zero carbon policy by 2050.
Experts say even if current national plans for limits on emissions go ahead completely, the world is heading toward 2.7 degrees of global warming.
Today’s China, the world’s biggest carbon emitter, is aiming for net zero by 2060, while other large polluters, such as India and Russia, have likewise failed to meet their mid-century targets.
G20 energy and environment ministers, meeting in Naples in July, had been unable to agree on a date for cutting fossil fuel subsidy and phasing out coal fuel.
A National Tiger Conservation Authority committee visited the sites of a tiger safari project, finding evidence of illegal activities.
The committee’s report calls these actions “an excellent example of both administrative and managerial failure”.https://t.co/yNqXawAQ0L
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Officials of Delhi and Haryana recently submitted two plans to help Najafgarh jheel deliver its full range of ecosystem services.
If the plans are implemented properly, the jheel could ameliorate the water woes of Delhi and Gurugram. | @RituRao84246481https://t.co/Pfqq4WiqLe
— The Wire Science (@TheWireScience) October 28, 2021
Should we be worried about India’s low rank of 101 out of 116 countries?
The Union government’s claims that the Global Hunger Index report is “devoid of ground reality and facts” is shot through with inconsistencies.https://t.co/foPhXFoyLR
— The Wire Science (@TheWireScience) October 28, 2021
Manjari Jain and her students have found that the jungle babbler’s calls are structurally and functionally organised to serve as a coherent system of communication. | @ragh_gadagkar https://t.co/H7yHBgD7me
— The Wire Science (@TheWireScience) October 29, 2021
The climate of Earth has always changed, but the study of past climates shows us that the changes in the last 150 years have been exceptional and can’t be natural. | @ProfMarkMaslinhttps://t.co/mNOSHz47TH
— The Wire Science (@TheWireScience) October 29, 2021
In 2018, the US Federal Trade Commission exposed the ‘deceptive’ practices of a publisher of predatory scientific journals.
A new report recommends combating this by starving them of resources instead of scholars keeping an eye out. | @tallguywalking https://t.co/itEjMLrOfC
— The Wire Science (@TheWireScience) October 29, 2021
If COP21 in Paris was the agreement on a destination, COP26 is the review of itineraries and course adjustments.
.@rkyte365 has been involved in climate negotiations as a former UN official. She explains what to watch out for.https://t.co/YSFAXzi5BW
— The Wire Science (@TheWireScience) October 29, 2021
We must reimagine how we think of and practice healthcare. It doesn’t suffice to increase expenditure without reconceptualising how we think of healthcare. | Anirudh Raghavan writes.https://t.co/Z25w6FNAE5
— The Wire Science (@TheWireScience) October 30, 2021
Botanical sexism is one of those tantalising ideas that claims that something we see every day – the trees in our literal backyards! – might have a much deeper story, if only we looked closer. | Jane C. Huhttps://t.co/Xb3JzyiCtk
— The Wire Science (@TheWireScience) October 30, 2021
Work on tiger safari inside Corbett reserve has destroyed more trees and land than the project proposal specified, based on documents that local officials couldn’t produce or had manipulated.
The actions are "both administrative and managerial failure".https://t.co/yNqXawjeCb
— The Wire Science (@TheWireScience) October 30, 2021
A new draft consultation paper prepared by ministry officials doesn't recognise deforestation as a problem as much as that the Act isn't conducive to commercial activity.https://t.co/vVig3ZYCiI
— The Wire Science (@TheWireScience) October 31, 2021
Human-to-human transmissibility has never been produced deliberately in laboratory experiments because no one knows exactly how to make a virus more transmissible among people.https://t.co/WE9DFmokB2
— The Wire Science (@TheWireScience) October 31, 2021
Transmission is key to a pathogen’s adaptation.
Lab-escape theories cannot clearly account for the adaptation of the virus to its new host, or, in other words, for the evolution of human-to-human transmissibility. | @WendyOrent https://t.co/WE9DFmokB2
— The Wire Science (@TheWireScience) October 30, 2021
A “consultation paper on the proposed amendment to the FCA 1980” seems to argue that failure to implement the law and confused interpretations of Supreme Court verdicts can be grounds for the government to dilute a law. | Ritwick Duttahttps://t.co/vVig3ZYCiI
— The Wire Science (@TheWireScience) October 30, 2021
India, the world’s third-biggest emitter of greenhouse gases after China and the US, is under pressure to announce plans to become carbon neutral by mid-century or thereabouts at next week’s climate conference in Glasgow. | @sanjeevmiglanihttps://t.co/yF5f5zobVY
— The Wire Science (@TheWireScience) October 30, 2021
