“I feel disappointed that this is all that we’ve won,” she said. In a recent video call to supporters, Varshini Prakash, the head of the Sunrise Movement, which advocates for aggressive action on climate change, said she felt two ways at once-proud “that we forced Democrats and the president to care about our generation” and also angry. The world is wandering into a kind of gray area between total failure and real global commitment to containing global warming. But it is also not nearly the jump predicted in the hottest scenario envisioned in the latest report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change-4.4 degrees Celsius, or 8 degrees Fahrenheit.
This is nearly twice the 1.5-degree-Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit) goal agreed to in principle in Paris. If all 192 keep their promises, the synthesis found, the planet would still be on track to warm 2.7 degrees Celsius, or 4.9 degrees Fahrenheit, by the end of the century. In a prelude to the conference, the UN added up the most recent pledges of parties to the 2015 Paris Agreement. In the United States, President Joe Biden’s “Build Back Better” plan lost a powerful provision that would have helped convert the nation’s electricity grid to renewable energy, but still includes an unprecedented $555 billion to combat climate change. The leaders of Russia and China haven’t bothered to attend, but did promise to help end deforestation by 2030-though many observers are skeptical that they will keep their word.
The COP26 international climate-change negotiations have just begun in Glasgow, Scotland, and the vibes are … ambivalent.
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