While licking their wounds from the FLOP26 in Glasgow, which the Green crowd decries as only getting some pledges, but no action, they are scheduling more events. A partial list follows. White House Climate Envoy John Kerry told Euroactiv.com on Dec. 10, that hard rules to curb methane emissions is a goal for 2022. “It’s in the near term. Because we have important meetings coming this year, and 2022 is the year of developing the details based on CBAM that the EU has put in place, which could take effect in 2023. So that’s going to have to really be worked out in the near term. And I think the whole issue of carbon pricing, CBAM (Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism of the EU), and carbon leakage – all of these things will be very much on the table over next year.” CBAM is an EU carbon levy program, aimed at penalizing imports if their emissions rating is too high. It is part of the “Fit by 55” EU plan for a 55% reduction of emissions, over 1990, to be achieved by 2030.
JANUARY. Jan. 27-28 in Costa Rica will be a conference called a special session in connection with the 50th anniversary of UNEP–United Nations Environmental Program. It will be a ministerial meeting of Latin America and the Caribbean. The UNEP website states, “The Forum of Ministers of the Environment is currently promoting solutions to important regional challenges: the progressive closure of dumpsites, the finance mechanisms for climate action and forests protection, the advancement of circularity, air-quality monitoring, among others.
“The forthcoming session will address ways to accelerate the implementation of the 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the context of post-COVID-19 economic and social recovery and will discuss how to strengthen partnerships and financing of environmental action.”
