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Climate action summit

April 3, 2020
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The 2019 UN Climate Action Summit was held at the headquarters of the UN in New York City in September 2019 with the theme, “Climate Action Summit 2019: A Race We Can Win. A Race We Must Win.”

Commitments done:

  • Sixty-five countries and the European Union pledged to cut Greenhouse gas emission to zero by the year 2050, thus the number of countries making this pledge reached 77.
  • The Small Island Developing States collectively increased their climate targets by 2020, achieve 100% of energy from renewable sources by 2030 and achieve a zero-carbon economy by 2050, provided they are helped by the international community.
  • France pledged to not enter into trade deals with countries that have policies contrary to the Paris Agreement.
  • Greece and Hungary pledged to close their coal-fired power plants by 2028 and 2030, respectively.
  • The Global Campaign for Nature led by Guatemala and Costa Rica started to function. The target of the campaign is to protect 30% of the earth surface by the year 2030.
  • The Climate Ambition Alliance, presided by President of Chile, Sebastian Pinera was created.
  • The alliance aims to unite the countries that want to increase their commitments by the year 2020. Fifty-nine countries said that they will do so.
  • The organization “High Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy” was created.
  • It includes 14 countries, covering a large part of the world coasts and fisheries and seeks to protect the oceans and create marine protected areas.
  • The European Union promised to give a quarter of its budget to climate action in 2020.
  • India promised to bring their renewable energy capacity to 175 gig watts by the 2022 and to 450 gig watts after.
  • Eighty countries joined the India and France led the International Solar Alliance.
  • The Russian Federation pledged to ratify the Paris Agreement, increasing the number of signatories to 187.
  • Russia being the fourth largest emitter of greenhouse gases (GHG), the targets for Russia in the agreement are reducing the emissions by 30% from the level of 1990 by the year 2030.
  • Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI), an international partnership that will support countries – developed and developing, to build climate and disaster resilient infrastructure was mooted.
  • The Coalition’s secretariat, based in Delhi, will facilitate knowledge exchange, provide technical support and support capacity building.
  • The Government of India, the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) and partners have together worked on the CDRI initiative

 

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