US EditionClimate-fighting efforts show slight gain but still fall far short, UN says
The latest UN report finds climate plans reduce warming by 0.3°C but predict global temperature rise will exceed Paris Agreement goals, reaching 2.3 to 2.5°C.
- This year, the United Nations Environment Programme found the newest climate-fighting plans shave about three-tenths of a degree Celsius off projected warming, yet they have barely moved the needle.
- This year, all nations were required to submit updated climate plans after last year’s global greenhouse gas emissions hit 57.7 billion tons, with a target of about 33 billion tons.
- Under current policies, the report finds a 2.8 C warming path, while pledged national plans could limit warming to 2.3 to 2.5 C, though warming above 2 C threatens low-lying islands, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warns.
- The United States' policy shifts and planned Paris withdrawal will add about 0.1 degrees Celsius, forcing the rest of the world to cut an additional $23 billion annually, UNEP reports.
- António Guterres, United Nations Secretary-General, warned global temperatures will pass 1.5 C within 10 years and urged national leaders to reaffirm Paris, tripling solar and wind, and doubling energy efficiency.
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World on track to dangerous warming
National commitments to slash heat-trapping pollution would limit global warming up to 2.5C this century — nowhere near enough to avoid devastating climate impacts despite a sweep of new pledges, the UN warned Tuesday. Scientists are in broad agreement that warming above 1.5C relative to pre-industrial times risks catastrophic consequences, and every effort must be made to stick as close as possible to this safer threshold. But the world is set …
Climate Reckoning: UN Report Reveals Alarming Gap in Global Emissions Targets
In the latest blow to international efforts to curb global warming, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has released its Emissions Gap Report 2025, painting a dire picture of humanity’s progress—or lack thereof—toward meeting the Paris Agreement’s temperature goals. The report, published on November 4, 2025, indicates that even with updated national climate pledges, the world is on track for 2.3 to 2.5 degrees Celsius of warming by c…
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