G20 energy and environment ministers have confirmed their commitment to follow the 2015 Paris Agreement but disagreed on wording for two issues less than 100 days before the COP26 conference in Glasgow, Scotland.
The ministers met for two days in Naples, Italy, to agree on ambitious goals ahead of the conference. The meeting focused on three main themes: Protecting the oceans and biodiversity, reorganizing financial systems to increase sustainable development, and focusing on circular economies, specifically in the textile industries.
But according to Italy’s Ecological Transition Minister Roberto Cingolani, the countries disagreed on phasing out coal by 2025, which some said was financially impossible, and moving faster on the 2015 Paris Agreement.