The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report calling for urgent action should have been officially "welcomed" at the 24th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP24) rather than simply noted, Bolivian Foreign Minister Diego Pary told Sputnik on the sidelines of the climate talks on Tuesday.
KATOWICE (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 11th December, 2018) The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report calling for urgent action should have been officially "welcomed" at the 24th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP24) rather than simply noted, Bolivian Foreign Minister Diego Pary told Sputnik on the sidelines of the climate talks on Tuesday.The issue came up during the ongoing Climate Change Conference, held in Poland's Katowice, as Kuwait, Russia, Saudi Arabia, and the United States insisted that the IPCC report should be noted rather than "welcomed." According to the US State Department, Washington did not want to endorse the report, although it was prepared to "express appreciation to the scientists who developed it."
"The report should have been welcomed. We think it is important to welcome the report and all the other efforts that the scientific community does because these scientific reports can outline the priorities for us ... We think it's important because it shows the scientific results and we welcome this scientific approach. Maybe we don't agree, but that's the reality so we have to face it," Pary said.
The report in question, released in October, warned that the world had to take urgent action to keep the global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit), stressing that it would help decrease risks of droughts, floods and other extreme weather conditions.
The ongoing conference in Poland's Katowice, which began on December 2, aims to finalize the guidelines for the implementation of the Paris Agreement.
