Europe is threatening the environment
European countries have increased their imports of liquefied natural gas. And carbon emissions have increased unprecedentedly due to additional gas imports. As a result, the environment and nature are under extreme threat.
Not only that, there are concerns about achieving the set goal of reducing carbon emissions to combat climate change. These data have emerged in a new research report.
Pipeline gas imports from Russia have almost stopped in the wake of the Ukraine conflict. As a result, European countries have to bring gas from relatively distant countries. Again, due to the fear of the crisis, the countries have increased the import of gas more than before.
A study by the BBC found that increased demand for liquefied natural gas production and transport is causing at least 10 times more carbon emissions than pipeline gas supplies. And due to excess carbon emissions, global warming is increasing, which has become a new challenge in dealing with the problem of climate change.
In such a situation, the COP-27 climate conference is going to be held in Egypt this week (starting from November 6). Hundreds of thousands of officials, researchers and activists are gathering at the conference as part of efforts to combat the effects of climate change.
But Ukraine war and unprecedented carbon emissions as an indirect effect of the war, analysts worry, could hamper efforts to curb climate change. At the same time, there is concern in various circles about the import of excess liquefied natural gas in European countries including UK, France and Germany.
A day later, the 27th UN Climate Conference, or COP-27, is being held in Sharm Al Sheikh, known as a center for vacations and festivals. The climate issue activists and the people of the world have great expectations about this. The UN warned last week that global efforts to reduce emissions are 'woefully inadequate'. This means, the world is now 'in the face of catastrophe'.
Egypt, the host country, has set a tough target ahead of the COP-27 conference. Earlier last year, in the COP-26 conference in Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom, important commitments were made on reducing carbon emissions, financing climate programs, forest protection and other issues. Egypt says this year's conference will focus on the implementation of those commitments.
World leaders are expected to face a major challenge at the COP-27 conference. Last week, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said, 'Don't underestimate the anger of developing countries. The Secretary General also said that developing countries feel that high-income countries are not interested in implementing the landmark climate agreement made at the Paris Conference in France in 2015.
Paris Agreement First Accepts Losses to Developing Countries It is also recognized that this can be solved by reducing emissions. Rich countries then agreed to help the victims.
Pledges of aid from developed countries will be the most important item on the agenda of this year's COP. In 2009, it was promised that the developed world would pay USD 10 billion annually to developing countries to mitigate the effects of climate change. The promise was to be implemented by 2020. But so far it has not been implemented due to some unknown reasons.
Pakistan has been hit by unprecedented floods and fires this year. Climate change is said to be the cause. Due to this, Pakistan, as the chair of the alliance of 134 developing countries affected by climate change, has brought forward the issue of compensation.
"I don't think it's an impossible demand," Pakistan's Climate Affairs Minister Sherry Rehman said of receiving compensation, drawing attention to how much the developed world is spending on the war.
Egypt, the host of the climate conference, has warned that a "crisis of confidence" will develop around the conference if the damage caused by climate change increases. Sweden's influential climate activist Greta Thunberg is not going to this conference in despair. On the other hand, the UN Secretary General called this year's conference a 'litmus test' for the developed world.
The developed world, including Europe and the United States, has formally discussed the climate issue, but has so far said nothing about cash assistance. The developed world is worried about compensation due to fears that climate change damages will increase in the coming years.
In addition, due to the Russian military aggression in Ukraine, due to the rise in food and fuel prices, developed countries are paying more attention to their own economies. The role of big countries like the top two polluters US and China will be important in the conference, which was also envisaged earlier.
