World decision makers preparing for the 2024 United Nations Climate Change Conference or Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC, more commonly known as COP29.
Former Spanish foreign minister Arancha González Laya told CGTN climate change can be halted, despite the sense of doom around proceedings felt by some analysts.
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Former Spanish foreign minister Arancha González Laya told CGTN climate change can be halted, despite the sense of doom around proceedings felt by some analysts.
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00:00So, our starting point should be to acknowledge that the fight against climate change is not an ideological fight.
00:06That it's about managing risks.
00:09That it's about managing the most serious risk to humanity we face today, which is climate change.
00:16Are we doing enough? No, we are not doing enough.
00:19We are not on course at the moment to keep the temperature rise to the 1.5°C that was agreed in Paris about 10 years ago.
00:27Can we do it? Yes, we can.
00:29We've shown in Europe that you can reduce your emissions.
00:32So, how do we get the big emitters to reduce emissions faster, in a more substantive way?
00:39And how do we help those that are not emitting and have never done so, to adapt to the challenges of climate change?
00:47So, yes, the Copenhagen needs to start giving answers to this,
00:51given the pressing nature of this risk that we have to humanity, which is climate change.