Rome: Britain is naming a thin Antarctic ice mass Glasgow Glacier, a climate conference starting Sunday in the Scottish city marks the wider implications for the world.
More than 120 world leaders to join Britain’s Prime Minister Boris johnson In Glasgow for the COP26 summit. Britain is calling it one of the world’s last chances to survive the target agreed in Paris in 2015 to limit global temperatures to 1.5 °C (2.7 °F) above pre-industrial levels.
scientists of University of Leeds have studied a series of glaciers in the Getz Basin of Antarctica in England, and their travel from land to ocean increased by an average of 25% between 1994 and 2018 due to climate change, adding 315 gigatons (347 billion US tons). ) has been shed. Contribution to ice and rising global sea levels.
The glaciers, which are located in the British Antarctic Territory, will be named after cities that have hosted climate conventions, reports or treaties, including Rio, Kyoto, Paris and Glasgow.
Johnson said that “naming this majestic city of nature after the city where mankind will gather next week to fight for the future of the planet, reminds us of what we need to preserve.” working for.
Urging the leaders of the Group of 20 major economies, meeting in Rome later this week, to step up carbon-reduction commitments, Johnson said the Glasgow meeting is “our best opportunity to keep the 1.5° target alive”. represents.”
Johnson is pressuring some of the G20’s biggest carbon emitters, including India, Australia and China, to cut their emissions faster and deeper. But he had little to show for it as firm commitments as he prepared to fly back to the UK and said he rated his chances of success for the Glasgow summit as a 6 out of 10.
More than 120 world leaders to join Britain’s Prime Minister Boris johnson In Glasgow for the COP26 summit. Britain is calling it one of the world’s last chances to survive the target agreed in Paris in 2015 to limit global temperatures to 1.5 °C (2.7 °F) above pre-industrial levels.
scientists of University of Leeds have studied a series of glaciers in the Getz Basin of Antarctica in England, and their travel from land to ocean increased by an average of 25% between 1994 and 2018 due to climate change, adding 315 gigatons (347 billion US tons). ) has been shed. Contribution to ice and rising global sea levels.
The glaciers, which are located in the British Antarctic Territory, will be named after cities that have hosted climate conventions, reports or treaties, including Rio, Kyoto, Paris and Glasgow.
Johnson said that “naming this majestic city of nature after the city where mankind will gather next week to fight for the future of the planet, reminds us of what we need to preserve.” working for.
Urging the leaders of the Group of 20 major economies, meeting in Rome later this week, to step up carbon-reduction commitments, Johnson said the Glasgow meeting is “our best opportunity to keep the 1.5° target alive”. represents.”
Johnson is pressuring some of the G20’s biggest carbon emitters, including India, Australia and China, to cut their emissions faster and deeper. But he had little to show for it as firm commitments as he prepared to fly back to the UK and said he rated his chances of success for the Glasgow summit as a 6 out of 10.
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