{"id":79321,"date":"2021-04-15T16:14:42","date_gmt":"2021-04-15T14:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fundacionnaturgy.org\/climate-ambitions-an-agreement-on-emissions-accounting-and-participation-by-the-united-states-will-be-the-key-issues-addressed-at-the-forthcoming-cop26-in-glasgow\/"},"modified":"2021-04-15T16:14:42","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T14:14:42","slug":"climate-ambitions-an-agreement-on-emissions-accounting-and-participation-by-the-united-states-will-be-the-key-issues-addressed-at-the-forthcoming-cop26-in-glasgow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fundacionnaturgy.org\/en\/climate-ambitions-an-agreement-on-emissions-accounting-and-participation-by-the-united-states-will-be-the-key-issues-addressed-at-the-forthcoming-cop26-in-glasgow\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate ambitions, an agreement on emissions accounting and participation by the United States will be the key issues addressed at the forthcoming COP26 in Glasgow."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Today the Naturgy Foundation and the Spanish chapter of the Club of Rome held a webinar on the different international stances on the climate challenge and the forthcoming Climate Summit in Glasgow. Valvanera Ulargui<\/strong>, director general of the Spanish Office for Climate Change, and Pedro Linares<\/strong>, a professor at the Higher Technical School of Engineering ICAI-University of Comillas, took part in the webinar. Julio Lumbreras<\/strong>, professor at the Polytechnic University of Madrid and Harvard University, also participated.<\/p>\n

Valvanera Ulargui stated that, after the climate ambition mandate set at the Madrid summit, \u201cwe have to leave Glasgow with an accounting mechanism for transactions in carbon markets\u201d and, above all, with an agreement that \u201cdoesn\u2019t freeze ambition or frustrate expectations.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pedro Linares emphasised the importance of the United States returning to work alongside climate change objectives because \u201cit changes geopolitics and could potentially encourage other agents to join the bandwagon.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ulargui explained that \u201cEurope has led on climate change policy and strategy over the past four years\u201d and that, following the Covid-19 healthcare crisis, \u201cthe pandemic hasn\u2019t pushed environmental objectives into the background; the world is committed to green transformation and the European Green Deal has played an important role in this area.\u201d<\/p>\n

Climate agenda at the G20 and G7 <\/strong><\/p>\n

She also highlighted how important it was that the G20 and G7 summits to be held this year will decisively include the climate agenda. \u201cPolitical leadership will now be gauged by climate ambition,\u201d stated Ulargui.<\/p>\n

Linares affirmed that \u201cthere are increasingly close links between climate and commercial politics,\u201d and Ulargui added that \u201cthe next big step is for the WTA to promote trade as a tool that supports climate change.\u201d<\/p>\n

Both Linares and Ulargui emphasised the importance of sector-based plans so that large-scale global objectives can be determined, come to fruition and be measured. Ulargui commented that the private sector has a high level of awareness because she has seen clear evidence of competition across the green agenda.<\/p>\n

The two climate change experts agreed that another key area that needs further work is increasing sustainable financing.<\/p>\n

The webinar was introduced by Mar\u00eda Eugenia Coronado<\/strong>, director general of the Naturgy Foundation, who underscored the need to persevere with debating and understanding the causes and implications of climate change because \u201cit is and will be one of the greatest risks and challenges faced by humanity, affecting both today\u2019s and future generations.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jos\u00e9 Manuel M\u00f3ran<\/strong>, deputy chairman of the Spanish chapter of the Club of Rome, recalled the Club of Rome\u2019s commitment to sustainability since its creation in 1968 and \u201cits active participation in defining policies and programmes that help to provide an appropriate response to the climate crisis, spreading information about good practices and developing solutions that speed up the decarbonisation of civic life, and production and mobility systems.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cNeither alone nor in silos\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Professor Julio Lumbreras<\/strong> explained that to adopt effective solutions to the climate change crisis, \u201ca complex, global problem that requires urgent action\u201d, what is needed is \u201ca transformational change brought about by close, continuous collaboration between different parties: companies, research centres and universities, governments and civil society.\u201d He summarised it as: \u201cNeither alone nor in silos.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lumbreras, who coordinated the recent Naturgy Foundation publication \u2018Climate Change. Scientific bases and debatable issues\u2019, explained that \u201ca degree of climate change seems to be inevitable and it is necessary to develop adaptation strategies to cope with the foreseeable and unavoidable impact\u201d.<\/p>\n

He maintained that \u201cit is scientifically proven that global warming will persist for millennia; adaptation will therefore not only have to be maintained for a long period of time, it will probably be a \u2018new normality\u2019 for the lives of future generations.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Naturgy Foundation and the Club of Rome<\/strong><\/p>\n

Today\u2019s webinar was part of a series of conversations between experts on current issues related to energy, the environment and sustainability launched by the Naturgy Foundation with the Spanish chapter of the Club of Rome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Naturgy Foundation and the Spanish chapter of the Club of Rome are holding a series of webinars to reflect on and debate current issues related to energy and sustainability, with a session on the forthcoming Climate Summit that will be held in November. <\/p>\n

Valvanera Ulargui, director general of the Spanish Office for Climate Change, and Pedro Linares, professor at the Higher Technical School of Engineering ICAI-University of Comillas, were the first guests in this series of conversations between experts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1454,"featured_media":78257,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false},"categories":[700],"tags":[944,711],"content-type":[],"acf":[],"post_class":["post-79321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energy-and-the-environment","tag-energy-and-the-environment","tag-seminars-en","wordpress-sticky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fundacionnaturgy.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79321"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fundacionnaturgy.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fundacionnaturgy.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fundacionnaturgy.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1454"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fundacionnaturgy.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fundacionnaturgy.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fundacionnaturgy.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fundacionnaturgy.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fundacionnaturgy.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fundacionnaturgy.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79321"},{"taxonomy":"content-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fundacionnaturgy.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-type?post=79321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}