“We have the Paris Agreement and it’s durable, so we’re adding to it and adding momentum and adding calls to action,” added Kizzier, who now works for the Environmental Defense Fund. “One of the risks of COP26 is that it’s being built up to be this important moment for ambition, which it is, but we’re not signing a new treaty here,” said Kelley Kizzier, a former European Union climate negotiator. The Glasgow meetings are not expected to end with a treaty, but the hope is to finish the rules for implementing the Paris agreement. “Right now, some countries like Brazil want to be able to count reductions within Brazil as part of their national commitment of reductions, but if another country or a company or those of us buying offsets.are claiming those reductions as offsets for our own emissions, then they shouldn’t be counted by the national government in the country where they happen,” said Haverkamp, who is now a professor at the University of Michigan.

Most countries have upped their global commitments, but the world is still projected to fall short of the goal from a climate agreement reached in Paris to limit warming to 2 degrees Celsius when compared to pre-industrial levels.Ī United Nations report last week found that countries’ proposed plans for emissions cuts would put the world on track for 2.7 degrees of warming by the end of the century.Īt the summit, nations will try to complete Paris Agreement rules surrounding carbon offset markets.Įxperts say good rules are necessary to prevent double counting as countries and companies seek to reach “net-zero” emissions by taking actions meant to reduce or offset emissions. “We’ve got this incredible sense of urgency of what has to happen in the next decade before 2030,” she said.

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