Summary Draft 2 - "Five Years Since Paris Agreement, world must get ambitious on climate action"

In the article, “Five years since Paris Agreement, world must get ambitious on climate action”, Sharma (2020) addressed the world’s efforts to reduce the existing effects on climate change at the global Climate Ambition Summit. 

As of the fifth year of the Paris Agreement, Sharma noted that a total of 75 leaders is committed to include net-zero energy, nationally determined contributions (NDCs), adaptations and resilience in their plans. Amongst the submitted revised plans for climate action, he highlighted that the UK government will stop providing new support to the overseas fossil fuel energy sector. He also mentioned that Singapore intends to invest in environment centric projects whilst Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong encourages globally to work together. In addition, Sharma emphasizes that a significant change in ambition is necessary to tackle climate change. Thus, improvements must be made by world leaders: increased international resolve and partnership.

Sharma (2020) concluded that the progress on vaccine has proven that nothing is impossible if everyone works together to combat climate change.

In my opinion, UK should not stop providing new support to the overseas fossil fuel energy sector because fossil fuel are still required initially to generate electricity and fuel.

Alok, S. (2020, 20 December). Commentary: Five years since Paris Agreement, world must get ambitious on climate action. Channel News Asia. https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/commentary/uncop26-climate-change-commitment-net-zero-clean-energy-uk-13798700