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Daily Briefing| April 14 2020

COVID-19 to hinder international climate diplomacy

Publisher: Oxford Analytica
Online ISSN: 2633-304X
© Oxford Analytica 2020. All rights reserved. This content contains general information about geopolitical, macroeconomic and social developments or (where stated) other matters. It does not contain advice or recommendations that may be relied on. Where links to external websites are provided, this does not indicate that Oxford Analytica or Emerald agree with, endorse or have checked for accuracy the contents of said sites.
2020
Expert Briefings (2020)
https://doi.org/10.1108/OXAN-DB251927
Subject

Climate diplomacy.

Significance

Amid frustration at the limited outcomes of last year’s COP25 conference in Madrid, hopes had been building that new commitments on climate action would be made in 2020. The global COVID-19 crisis has broken momentum towards such goals, seeing several international climate conferences postponed, including COP26, which was to take place in Glasgow in November. With political energy now focused completely on COVID-19, hopes that COP26 would increase ambitions to meet Paris Agreement temperature goals have been dashed.

Impacts

Trends of increasing renewable energy will remain consistent, given policy support.

Climate ‘emergency’ rhetoric will run into public fatigue after the health emergency.

The US withdrawal from the Paris Agreement on November 4 will be a flashpoint in presidential elections.

Keywords: International, INT, China, United Kingdom, United States, economy, industry, international relations, politics, social, climate, emergency, environment, health, pollution, talks, energy, manufacturing, transport, Fossil fuels, Transport & logistics
© Oxford Analytica 2020. All rights reserved. This content contains general information about geopolitical, macroeconomic and social developments or (where stated) other matters. It does not contain advice or recommendations that may be relied on. Where links to external websites are provided, this does not indicate that Oxford Analytica or Emerald agree with, endorse or have checked for accuracy the contents of said sites.
2020
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