The US climate envoy, John Kerry, confirmed that there is a 60% chance of reducing the Earth's temperature by about 1.5 degrees Celsius, according to breaking news for the “Sky News” satellite channel.
Climate experts have warned world leaders as they gather in Glasgow for an international climate summit that would limit temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius is a "real science" and a vital threshold for the planet that cannot be negotiated.
Kerry stressed that such goals are not political issues that can be negotiated.
World leaders gathered in Glasgow to find a common approach aimed at keeping global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, the minimum set by the 2015 Paris climate agreement. However, some countries are unwilling to tie their emissions plans to the more difficult target, as this requires more urgent efforts.
Those leaders, especially in Europe, prefer to think of long-term goals such as achieving zero carbon emissions by 2050.
While the Czech Prime Minister, Andrej Babis, expressed his conviction that the COP26 climate summit held in the Scottish city of Glasgow did not offer anything new.
He said - in a statement to reporters, carried by Radio Prague International today, Wednesday, that many countries are not making the same efforts as Europe to combat environmental threats.
Babis noted that he told world leaders at the summit the need to follow a rational approach, as it cannot be Europe alone that takes measures that have a negative impact on energy prices and harm industry and employment.
He had criticized the European "Green Deal", describing it as overly ambitious and irrational at a time when the continent is threatened by energy scarcity.
He warned that the proposed ban on combustible engines by 2035, through which the European Union wants to achieve zero emissions by the year 2050, will have little impact without a similar commitment by the world's major polluters such as China and the United States of America.
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