Många i Katowice är eniga om att öka ambitionerna så att uppvärmningen kan hållas inom 1,5 grad. EU, Kanada m fl förespråkar det. Guterres vill att Kina skall ta på sig ledarrollen nu när USA har kastat av sig den.
Och det verkar som ett regelverk börjar ta form, trots motstånd från USA, Saudi, Ryssland och Kuwait.
Climate change talks lead to renewed pledge to cut emissions
The EU and scores of developing countries have pledged to toughen their existing commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to enable the world to stay within a 1.5C rise in global warming.
The promise, which follows increasingly dire scientific warnings, was the most positive message yet to come from the ongoing talks in Poland.
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“We’re running out of time,” António Guterres told the plenary. “To waste this opportunity would compromise our last best chance to stop runaway climate change. It would not only be immoral, it would be suicidal.”
The talks have centred on devising a rulebook for implementing the 2015 Paris agreement and raising countries’ level of ambition to counter climate change, but progress has been slow on several key issues and divisions have emerged between four fossil fuel powers – the US, Russia, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait – and the rest of the world
The UN believes China could play a stronger role in the absence of leadership from the US. Sources said Guterres would make a telephone call to Xi to ask for his help in nudging talks forward.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/dec/12/un-chief-antonio-guterres-attempts-to-revive-flagging-climate-change-talks