Global Challenges: COP26, the summit of ‘blah blah blah?

(CNN Spanish) – Is the world really aware of the magnitude of the challenge of the climate crisis? Will the world leaders meeting at COP26 reach agreements or will it just be “blah, blah, blah,” as Greta Thunberg puts it? José Levy analyzes it in the new episode of Global Challenges.

“Blah blah blah” is how simply climate activist Greta Thunberg summed it up.

“We are digging our own grave”, that was how shocking it was described, not by another activist but by none other than the UN Secretary General, António Guterres.

For US President Joe Biden, “it is an existential threat, to human existence, as we know it now.”

But is the world really aware of the magnitude of the challenge? That the future of our own children, of our grandchildren, is at stake?

Unfortunately I think not. Or as we said when we were young: downhill and without brakes. Open grave, as Guterres somehow expressed it.

Greetings, this is José Levy in a new episode of the CNN podcast Global Challenges. This time about the Glasgow Climate Summit in Scotland.

First share a personal concern, how come podcasts on this topic are not the most visited? Is the present already so challenging that the future is of no interest, more in the long term?

And at the Climate Summit, did you know that many countries do not sign the commitments reached? And that, even if they do, do they know that a large part of the decisions that are adopted are not binding? In other words, after committing to something, does each country do what it wants? Do you remember how, without further ado, then-President Donald Trump withdrew from the Paris climate accord six years ago and… nothing happened?

Sorry for maybe putting your finger on the sore, but the fact is that, although the world around us flourishes, the stakes are too high and too many leaders prefer to turn a deaf ear and not realize that borders on this issue they are irrelevant. That, if we are shipwrecked, we are all shipwrecked.

Listen to the rest in the podcast at the top of the note.

Well. So far this podcast, I await your comments on Twitter: @joselevycnn. Next week we will continue with more Global Challenges to present us with this terrible or wonderful precious corner of the Universe where we lived.

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