African countries need rich nations to take the lead on ambition at Cop26

(Climate Home News, 29 Feb 2020) Last year’s climate talks in Madrid were a historic milestone, marking 25 years since the start of the global response to the threat of climate change under the UN process.

At Cop25, countries took stock of their collective response so far.

A report by UN Climate Change found that developed countries, excluding former soviet union countries, decreased their total aggregate greenhouse gas emissions by only 1.6% from 1990 to 2017, when excluding forestry and land use change. From 2000 to 2017, that figure was 9.5%.

This is alarming. At Cop25, African countries have called on developed countries to take robust action and implementation to close the ambition gap of both cutting emissions and climate finance which they promised to do by 2020, under the Kyoto Protocol.

The gap in mobilising and dispersing $100 billion a year by 2020 is a crucial concern of African countries. We have called on developed nations to deliver their obligation of climate finance to facilitate the implementation of more ambitious action in vulnerable countries.

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