clear action from the developed world, ahead of COP26, which is considered to be the most significant climate event since the 2015 Paris Agreement.
“Despite COVID understandably taking the headlines, climate change has been getting worse over the past year as emissions continue to rise and the lives and livelihoods on the frontline suffer,” chair of the least developed countries (LDC) group at COP26, Sonam P Wangdi, said. “We vulnerable countries are not asking for much – just that richer countries, who have caused this problem, take responsibility by cutting their emissions and keeping their promise to help those their emissions have harmed.”
Although some of the most developed economies, which are jointly responsible for two-thirds of global greenhouse gas emissions, have pledged to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050, however, a majority of them have not yet set out adequate measures to reach this goal.
Accordingly, the LDC group published five key demands, which called on developed countries to…
