COP26: day of debate on transport and in which Portugal intervenes
The transport sector, responsible for a large part of the calls for greenhouse gases, is today the main theme of the Glasgow climate summit, on the day Portugal speaks without a high-level segment of the conference.
The Portuguese minister of Environment and Climate Action is expected to speak this morning, the second of two days in which the leading countries’ ministries were not present at the inauguration of COP26, last week, at the summit.
And the day is also dedicated to transport, which exerts great environmental pressures, contributing to climate change, air pollution and high noise levels.
The summit presidency says it is the beginning of a mass market for vehicles that do not emit carbon dioxide, “a transition that needs to be accelerated complementary” to maintain the objective of not allowing temperatures to rise above 1.5ºC (celsius degrees) compared to pre-industrial times.
Therefore, the day dedicated to transport, according to the British presidency, will bring together leaders from across the sector to accelerate the transition to zero-drift vehicles and also decarbonise other sectors such as aviation and maritime transport.
The aim is to encourage governments to create “green sea corridors”, decarbonised sea routes, by launching a so-called “Clydebank Declaration”.
The day will still be for launching commitments so that in a few years all vehicles sold are zero transfer, and that in the aviation area zero information will also be reached in the future.
More than 120 political leaders and many of experts, activists and public decision-makers gather until 12 November in Glasgow, Scotland, at the 26th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP26) to update the contributions of countries to reducing the reduction of greenhouse gases by 2030.
COP26 takes place six years after the Paris Agreement, which aims to limit the increase in the global average temperature of the planet to between 1.5 and 2 degrees Celsius above the values of pre-industrial times.
Despite the commitments made, restrictions on greenhouse gases reached record levels in 2020, even with the economic slowdown caused by the covid-19 pandemic, according to the UN, which estimates that, at the current rate of transfer, prices will be in the end of the upper century at 2.7 °C.
