The GLASGOW / OSLO (VG) G20 countries agree to follow the goal of the Paris Agreement, and try to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees.
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This is what sources say to the news agency AFP.
The sources should be close to the negotiations at the summit. They claim that the G20 leaders are in favor of a statement that goes further than the Paris Agreement in 2015, which concluded that global warming should be kept below 2 degrees, and ideally closer to 1.5 degrees.
There has been a lot of pressure on the G20 countries to reach a common climate policy during the summit in Rome, which will be followed by the UN climate summit COP26 in Glasgow. The 20 major industrialized countries together account for 80 percent of the world’s climate emissions.
Experts believe that in order to reach the 1.5-degree target, one will have to almost halve global emissions by 2030, and then make the world completely carbon neutral by 2050.
Climate and Environment Minister Espen Barth Eide (Labor Party) tells VG that he is very pleased that the G20 countries have now reached an agreement in Rome.
He has the 1.5-degree goal as one of three main points he hopes to get out of the climate summit in Glasgow in the coming weeks.
– This is very good and well done by those who were there. This strengthens the possibility of reaching a joint decision from Glasgow. It can also help create movement in other fields, says Eide.
–The other two points that are important for the Minister of Climate before the climate summit are the escalation of climate financing – as well as the establishment of common standards for quota systems.
– They must become more real, and we must avoid pitfalls and cheating when we trade quotas.
The world has many different quota systems, he emphasizes:
– The important thing is that we must bring forward common standards. It would have been best if the other quota systems in the world could be more similar to the European standard. A quota must represent an actual emission, he says to VG.
France and Britain agree to resolve fisheries dispute
During the G20 summit, France and the United Kingdom also agreed on “practical and operational measures” to calm the dispute between the countries over fishing rights.
It informs the office of French President Emmanuel Macron.
The report states that Macron and the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Boris Johnson spoke together during the G20 summit. There, they must have agreed on immediate measures of relaxation, and on coming up with more concrete measures as soon as possible.
The countries have for several months disagreed on fishing rights for their boats in each other’s waters in the English Channel. The issue was very prominent in the negotiations on the divorce agreement between the UK and the EU after Brexit.
The French have reacted strongly to the British refusing to give French fishermen the licenses they have requested in line with the Brexit agreement.
In recent weeks, the conflict has escalated sharply, and France has threatened to deny British fishermen access to French ports, tighten customs controls, and limit the power supply to the Channel Islands.
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