Alok Sharma says global crises should increase, not diminish, nations’ determination to cut greenhouse gases made in Glasgow climate pact

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/may/15/breaking-climate-vows-would-be-monstrous-self-harm-warns-cop26-president

Fiona HarveyEnvironment correspondentSun 15 May 2022 17.58 EDT

Failure to act on the promises made at theGlasgow Cop26 climate summitlast year would be “an act of monstrous self-harm”, the UK’s president of the conference will warn today in Glasgow.

Alok Sharma, the cabinet minister who led the UK-hosted summit that ended with agreement to limit global heating to 1.5C, will say that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and rising energy and food prices, have changed the global outlook drastically in the six months since.

But responding to those changes by reneging on climate commitments would only result in worse damage, he will say…