The planet is at a crossroads, the decisions made in the coming days at the Glasgow climate summit, COP26, will be decisive in terms of living conditions […]
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However, Merkel has entered the Nuvola building alone in what will be her last summit and, therefore, dismissed from the political sphere and the international community after 16 intense years at the helm of the federal government.
The President of the Spanish Government, Pedro Sánchez, arrived at around 10:30 am, just before the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Boris Johnson, who thanked Draghi for his leadership work at this summit. The president of the United States, Joe Biden, has been a few minutes late for the family photo. He got out of the official car, called ‘The Beast’, due to its grandeur, at 11:34, when the family photo was scheduled at 11:30.
Biden is scheduled to meet with UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, French President Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel to discuss the way to resume negotiations for a return to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. (JCPOA) and shared concerns about the status of Iran’s nuclear program.
The Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, who met this morning at the Vatican with the Pope in what was the first visit to the Vatican by the Hindu nationalist leader, who has ruled the country since 2014, has also arrived from the last.
The prime minister, Mario Draghi, who intends to reach a pre-agreement in Rome on the climate emergency with the great polluters of the Earth, to take it to COP26, has been greeting them one by one as they arrived and has taken a photo with them.
Draghi has also been able to greet the President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan. A meeting that will serve to reduce tensions after the diplomatic crisis that triggered Draghi to label Erdogan a ‘dictator’ at a press conference.
The Earth is spinning at a temperature that could more than double, to +2.7. The EU is expected to reduce emissions by 55% by 2030
The goal would be to reach an agreement on net zero emissions by 2050, with significant reductions by 2030 and a commitment to stay below the 1.5 degrees Celsius increase in temperature from now until the end of the century, a goal set at the summit of Paris. At the moment, the Earth is spinning at a temperature that could more than double, to +2.7. The EU is expected to reduce emissions by 55% by 2030 (compared to 1990 levels).
China, for its part, has announced an emission reduction of 65%, maintaining the goal of reaching zero emissions by 2060, like India, but has continued to build new coal plants, investing in renewable energies a third of what it does with fossil fuels.
Security against protests
The city of Rome has shielded itself for this event with more than 10,000 police and military patrolling the streets to prevent violent demonstrations such as those that occurred a fortnight ago against the obligation of the health passport and that led to serious disturbances and the assault on the headquarters of the main Italian union.
Various demonstrations by activists against the climate emergency in Fridays For Future, as well as workers who have lost their jobs and several NGOs, who will protest against the difficulty of countries with fewer economic resources to access vaccines against COVID-19.
In fact, the Italian Police intervened early this morning to remove a blockade formed by approximately fifty pro-environment protesters near the security zone of the G20 summit that starts this Saturday in Rome.
It is about fifty protesters from the so-called Climate Camp who decided to block the traffic on Cristoforo Colombo Avenue by sitting in the middle of the road shouting “If there are no changes, we will blockade the city.”
Police officers have moved the protesters to the sidewalk of the road to clear the passage of vehicles and, for the moment, there are no more incidents, according to the Italian media The messenger.
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