The influential G-20 nations recently gathered in New Delhi to discuss their business plans, boost their cooperation and achieve the bloc’s monopoly over the global economy through joint work and coordinated strategies of the member nations. Before their huddle in India, the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres sensitized the powerful bloc to act quickly on global warming because the climate crisis is worsening rapidly, time lapses as the priorities and focus of the world nations diverted significantly from their common goal that was set through Paris accord at Global Climate Summit in 2015.
The historic Paris Accord set a certain time frame for specific goals to protect all living species including mankind and animals from the worst effects of global warming. The globe was to cut its emissions of heat-trapping gases by 43% by 2030, compared to 2019 levels, and 60% by 2035. Meanwhile, world nations agreed to gradually phase out unabated fossil fuels, the internal combustion engine, coal power plants etc. That still awaits the implementation of words into action.
Unfortunately, the global climate agenda was dishonoured and torn apart into pieces by the nationalist American President Donald J. Trump who preferred his country’s interest over the survival and well-being of worldwide humanity, and all other living creatures in the universe. Later, a majority of developed nations renounced their commitments concerning the global climate agenda because it hurt them the least despite the fact global warming was the sole creation of Western democracies in the past decades. The top 20 economies, whom leaders met in New Delhi are primarily responsible for 80% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions in the globe.
Interestingly, there was a one-phrase description of global climate risk at the G-20 huddle in India while the whole deliberations of G-20 leaders were regarding the war in Ukraine. The Western nations have diverted their entire resources to defeating their staunch enemy, thus global warming is not a priority for them anymore. The UN must hold all polluters accountable for their pollution according to their size and subscription, otherwise, no crooks would be ready to pay for their pranks.
