The paris agreement is actually quite a short document. It's only one of the four, five greenhouse gases that we have to worry about if we want to keep it below two degrees celsius. We actually have more room to reach ned zero, so to speak. And what you get from developing countries, especially china, is that they would like more time to be able to reach the nedzero target. I mean, we've already seen that happen with germany. Germany, early earlie this year, had a goal of 20 50. Its court said, no, that goal is not good enough. And then they brought the nezilo goal to 20 forty
With the devastating effects of the climate emergency becoming more urgent by the day, the COP26 summit in Glasgow now represents a pivotal moment in global cooperation on the issue. Can anything meaningful be achieved without collaboration from the big players such as China, the US and the EU? Economist Linda Yueh is joined by journalist and environment specialist Isabel Hilton of China Dialogue plus Bloomberg News climate and energy reporter Akshat Rathi to answer this and get a primer on the big debates ahead.
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