The European Union, the United Kingdom and the developing countries most affected by climate change have expressed their concern for delays in the global evaluation of the climate that the UN scientific group will carry out, after the United States decided to abandon this process.
The European Union, Great Britain and developing countries vulnerable to climate change have expressed concern about delays in the next world evaluation of the subject, carried out by the UN scientific group about the climate, after the US government retired of the process.
The Intergovernmental Expert Group on Climate Change, an UN agency that brings together scientists of the climate of almost 200 countries to evaluate the health of the planet, will meet next week in Hangzhou, China, to plan its next global report.
“It will be vital that all the contributions of the working groups to the seventh evaluation report are prepared on time,” said EU Climate Manager, Wopke Hoekstra, and ministers from 17 countries, including Great Britain, including Great Britain , Germany, France, Spain, the Marshall and Guatemala Islands, to which Reuters had access on Friday.
“We owe all those who suffer the impacts of the climatic crisis now, and the future generations, to make decisions about the future of our planet based on the best evidence and knowledge available to us,” said the statement.
The government of US President Donald Trump arrested the participation of American scientists at the IPCC and the country will not attend his meeting in Hangzhou, Reuters reported Thursday.
Officials familiar with conversations said that countries behind the statement are concerned that the report is now not completed in time to inform the next “balance” of the balance of Paris Agreement In 2028, when almost 200 countries will review their progress towards the containment of climate change and agree more strict measures.
Last month, Trump also ordered his country to withdraw again from the Paris Agreement on climate change and has reversed in the climatic political radicals of his predecessor Joe Biden.
A second statement, published on Friday by the least advanced countries, a group of 45 of the most vulnerable nations in the world, said there is no excuse for any delay in the process.
“Any reverse in this process will be seen as what it is: politicization of science at the expense of vulnerable countries,” they said.