➡️"urgent need for deep, rapid emissions cuts for 1.5C"
➡️"reaffirms resolution to pursue 1.5C"
➡️"accelerating efforts on coal phase OUT"
➡️still no fossil fuel phase down/out
➡️creates "dialogue" on Article 2.1c
➡️"reaffirms" 1.5C means -45% by 2030 & net-zero around midcentury (SR15 rather than AR6)
➡️"urges" long-term strategies twd global netzero "by or around midcentury"
➡️"strongly urges" stronger NDCs ASAP b4 COP28
This text is an extremely long way from a proper draft decision and with 48hrs to go until #COP27 is suposed to end, a late finish is all but guaranteed
(Pres letter last night said committed to Friday finish but that is absolutely not going to happen)
New texts emerged overnight on mitigation work prog, adaptation goal; G77 issued its preferred language on loss & damage funding; still no cover text draft
Egypt tasked crunch issues to ministerial pairs (pic)
G20 communique backed 1.5C
The G20 communique effectively repeats language from last year, including from the Glasgow Pact on "resolving to purse" 1.5C
Given the fights at #COP27 over this language, this G20 agreement is significant