Julia Simon
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first heard Nov 2024
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It's very different than $1.3 trillion. Yeah. Here's what Nkiruka Madukwe, a delegate from Nigeria, said.
As Jessica pointed out, this money is not in the form of grants, which is what many countries wanted. It's loans.
Right. And in the long term, these countries might end up with more debt. Also, here's Maduke again. She mentions the NCQG. That's the acronym for this money.
And what she's talking about in part there is that as part of the Paris Agreement, all these countries have to submit targets for reducing their climate pollution by 2035. And the hope is that all these cuts combined will limit the world's warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. or 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit. Okay.
What Anquiruka Madukwe is pointing out is that one of the main things this money is supposed to go to is helping countries meet those targets for reducing emissions. Right.
Exactly. You need money to buy solar panels or wind turbines or close down coal plants. And- Yeah. With less money, that means developing countries can't have as ambitious targets in the first place to reach that 1.5 degrees goal, which is a big problem.
And Julia, just piping in here, you might have heard the news that this year, 2024, global temperatures are on track to average above 1.5 degrees. degrees Celsius for the first time ever. The World Meteorological Association announced that recently. Yeah.
Well, every COP has their kind of different goal. This year was really about money for developing countries. However, those targets that are supposed to add up to 1.5 degrees, they're due in February. So that's coming up. And so there were some countries that at the summit submitted their targets, like Brazil. Brazil says their cuts align with the 1.5 degree goal.
Climate policy experts say that's still unclear. Yeah.
And just to clarify, I don't want people listening to lose hope. There are other countries that could have more ambitious goals. There are countries that do have more ambitious goals, like the United Kingdom. They came out with goals that are, quote unquote, 1.5 degrees aligned. So it is happening.
And at the end of the day, everything we do to curb our emissions as much as possible, that matters. The more we cut, the better it is. This isn't a zero-sum game.
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