WWF calls for a mechanism to assess the climate action of non-state actors

The head of climate change of WWF, Manuel Pulgar, claims that there is a mechanism to assess the goals of reducing emissions of non-state agents and their compliance, so that, In addition to the performance of the countries, if it is reported, there may be a photo of the whole climate action.

Bonn (Germany), Nov 17 (EFE) .- The head of climate change at WWF, Manuel Pulgar, calls for a mechanism to assess the emission reduction goals of non-state actors and its compliance, so that, added to the action of the countries, if it is reported, there may be a photo of the whole climate action.

The action of non-state actors is present at the climate summits three years ago, when Pulgar, at the climate summit that he presided over in Lima as Peru's environment minister, created a platform called Agenda Global for Climate Action.

This is explained in an interview with Efe by this former Peruvian Minister of the Environment, who highlights the enormous dimension reached by the implications of the fight against climate change in all aspects of society (forests, oceans, agriculture, energy, vulnerable populations, consumption, etc.) and change the economic model that requires.

So much so that since the implementation of the aforementioned agenda for non-state actors, the climate summits are held in two different venues.

One of them is intended the debates and presentations of all those organizations of the society (in the current summit, the COP23, it is called "Bonn Zone") and another one to the plenaries and official negotiation rooms for the diplomats of almost 200 governments, and this year is called "Bula Zone", which in the native language of Fiji, which chairs the summit, means "hello").

Well, after three years of Global Action, Pulgar believes that "we must move forward and provide a sectoral organization, and a formal mechanism to account for the goals that have the different actors of each sector of the economy (agriculture, transport, energy, building, waste, etc.), know how they are being met and where they take us. "

" We need a parallel mechanism in the summits to monitor all that action parallel to that carried out by the governments, to give us more guidance to know if the alignment of the efforts of the two parties, actors not state and nations, leads us to the goal we want to achieve: that the temperature of the planet does not exceed 2 degrees and if possible 1.5 ", explained.

Pulgar, who intervened in the Plenary of the COP23 to report the results of the Global Action Agenda minutes before this interview, denounced that the high representatives of the governments had abandoned the room for the presentation "showing the existing distance with the non-state climate action".

The head of WWF climate change stressed that we are "at a crucial moment" in the one that has to be regulated and put into action urgently so that the 2030-2050 period produces a rapid decarbonization of the economy, which prevents the imbalance of the planet by an accelerated rise in temperature.

"And when I speak of actions, I am also referring to very important issues such as biodiversity and the rest of issues related to development. sustainable, because at the climate change summits we have learned to reduce emissions and adapt to the impacts of climate change, but what we have not achieved, at the international level, is stop the escalation of biodiversity loss, "he insisted.

Pulgar appreciated progress in this summit, as if more ambition has been agreed upon by 2020 for developed countries or the "Talanoa Dialogue" is designed, the name given to the way in which countries will evaluate next year where they are to meet the objective of the two grades, and what will to overcome the existing gap to achieve that goal.

However, the spokesman for WWF stressed that "the planet is at a crossroads", and "we have at our disposal a unprecedented opportunity after the Paris Agreement, which can and should change the future. "

" The decisions we made today at this summit lay the foundations for 2018 and beyond, and fundamental is that countries increase their ambition to take us to the destination of 1.5 degrees, "he concluded.