Statements by G20 members on the fight against global warming are “grossly inadequate” to the situation, the UN climate chief said in an interview with AFP on Wednesday ahead of the next summit this weekend in India, AFP reported.

“The messages that have been issued are woefully inadequate, they do not address the important issues that these 20 countries need to address,” said Simon Still, executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

The head of the International Energy Agency (IEA) on Monday called on the United States and China to put aside “tensions” and present a united front in the fight against climate change, warning in an interview with AFP on Monday that geopolitical differences could hold back the transition to clean energy.

“I really hope that at the next COP28, the United States and China, the biggest emitters (of greenhouse gases), will put aside their geopolitical and economic tensions,” he said.

“When I look at the future of energy and climate, it seems to me that the best and most optimistic agenda is to put (the issue of) clean energy at the center,” the IEA president added, urging the two countries to “come.” together’ to make progress on climate change.

In his opinion, the world is moving too slowly to meet the goals for limiting global warming agreed by the international community in Paris in 2015.

The next UN climate conference (COP28), due to be held in late November-early December in Dubai, is likely to lead to heated confrontations on energy issues, both geopolitical and economic, in order to find common solutions. on key questions.

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