New Delhi, India \u2013 The G20 Summit has concluded with a disappointing outcome on climate change, demonstrating an incomprehensible failure to act in the midst of mounting climate chaos around the globe.<\/p>\n\n
Tracy Carty, Global Climate Politics Expert at Greenpeace International, said:<\/p>\n\n
\u201cDespite record-shattering temperatures, raging wildfires, drought, floods and other climate disasters over recent months impacting tens of millions of people, G20 leaders have collectively failed to deliver anything meaningful on climate change this year. Fossil fuels are killing us, and the G20\u2019s reckless failure to act will be measured in further lives and livelihoods lost. Leaders failed to reach agreement on the phase out of all fossil fuels. They also made a timid commitment to triple renewables, but only through \u2018existing targets and policies\u2019.<\/p>\n\n
\u201cUnity, urgency and ambition to end the fossil fuel era are required now more than ever from the G20 group of the world\u2019s major economies who account for around 80% of global emissions.\u201d<\/p>\n\n
Avinash Chanchal, Campaign Manager at Greenpeace India said:<\/p>\n\n
\u201cAs the host of this year\u2019s G20 Summit, India is one of the most vulnerable countries to climate change. In recent years, we have witnessed an increase in devastating and frequent extreme weather events, including cyclones, floods, and heatwaves, in many parts of the country. Countless vulnerable communities in our country and across the world are already paying the highest price for a climate crisis they have done the least to cause.<\/p>\n\n
\u201cG20 developed countries have utterly failed to take concrete steps to increase international financial support for climate action. Existing promises such as providing USD100BN per year until 2025 in climate finance remain unfulfilled, and merely reiterating these promises in the G20 declaration is useless and will not lead to tangible change.\u201d<\/p>\n\n
ENDS<\/p>\n\n
Contacts<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n Greenpeace International Press Desk: pressdesk.int@greenpeace.org, +31 (0) 20 718 2470 (available 24 hours)<\/p>\n\n Note: This post was edited on 11 Sept 2023, the sentence: “Leaders failed to reach agreement on the phase out of coal, oil and gas”, was replaced with: “Leaders failed to reach agreement on the phase out of all fossil fuels<\/strong>.”<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Summit has concluded with a disappointing outcome on climate change, demonstrating an incomprehensible failure to act in the midst of mounting climate chaos around the globe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":11544,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_planet4_optimize_post_is_variant":false,"_planet4_optimize_experiment_name":"","_planet4_optimize_variant_name":"","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"p4_og_title":"Greenpeace calls out G20 leaders\u2019 incomprehensible failure to act in the face of global climate chaos\u00a0","p4_og_description":"The G20 Summit has concluded with a disappointing outcome on climate change, demonstrating an incomprehensible failure to act in the midst of mounting climate chaos around the globe.","p4_og_image":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-international-stateless\/2018\/01\/a9c971b7-gp0stqixf.jpg","p4_og_image_id":"11544","p4_seo_canonical_url":"","p4_campaign_name":"","p4_local_project":"","p4_basket_name":"Political & Business","p4_department":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[89],"p4-page-type":[98],"class_list":["post-62098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energy","tag-climate","p4-page-type-press-release"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62098"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62440,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62098\/revisions\/62440"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62098"},{"taxonomy":"p4-page-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/p4-page-type?post=62098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}