'Whole meeting is doomed': David Suzuki on COP26
CTV
Canadian environmentalist David Suzuki says promises made at COP26 don't carry much weight in the fight against climate change as he believes the pledges don't go far enough in protecting the Earth's atmosphere.
World leaders have pledged a variety of climate measures at this year's summit, including working to curb deforestation and methane emissions. Many of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's pledges at the UN climate talks in Glasgow reflected promises he made during the federal election campaign earlier this year, such as a global carbon tax and a cap on Canadian oil and gas emissions.
The latest draft proposals from COP26, released Friday, call on countries to accelerate "the phaseout of unabated coal power and of inefficient subsidies for fossil fuels." Suzuki told CTV's Your Morning on Friday that this is the first instance that all of the attending countries have agreed to use the term "fossil fuels" in the documentation.
"I hear this morning they're celebrating because for the first time in 26 meetings they've got fossil fuels actually in their documents that they're going to end with. I mean, is this progress?" Suzuki said.
Suzuki was invited to this year's summit, but says he "didn't see really the point of going" given the lack of progress that is made at the talks.
