The Global Climate Summit began Sunday in the city of Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, where more than 30,000 people —including authorities, specialists, and environmental leaders— will analyze and promote efforts to accelerate actions in the face of the climate emergency —over the next two weeks.
Peru participates in this world event with more than 170 representatives from the public and private sectors, thus involving indigenous or native peoples, youth, civil society members, and academics, among others.
At the plenary session, the representative of the
Independent Association of Latin America and the Caribbean (AILAC) —a negotiating group of which Peru is a part— renewed its commitment to maintain the goal of not exceeding 1.5 degrees Celsius of temperature on the planet and bet on an unprecedented change that avoids the catastrophic impacts triggered by climate change.
Similarly, he urged countries to give clear signs to fulfill their commitments in terms of climate financing, eliminating subsidies for fossil fuels, and promoting deep transformational changes in every sector of economic activity not to exceed the peak of global greenhouse gas emissions by 2025.