US EditionOvershooting 1.5°C Climate Target Now 'Inevitable,' Says UN Chief
UN reports a projected 10% global emissions cut by 2035 but warns this pace is insufficient to meet the 1.5C warming limit outlined in the Paris Agreement.
- The UN reports that commitments to keep global warming under 1.5C are failing ahead of COP30.
- Every signatory agreed to submit a new carbon-cutting plan every five years.
- UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres stated that slow action makes it 'inevitable' to exceed 1.5C in the short term.
- The UN expresses confidence that global emissions will peak and decline in the coming years.
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The synthesis report of the country's climate commitments for 2035 to date shows that, although the emissions curve is decreasing for the first time, it is not enough.
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The projections still fall short of the 60% reduction in emissions needed to prevent global temperatures from rising by more than 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels.
One week before the opening of the World Climate Summit in Belém, Brazil, the UN updated its data on the global trajectory of greenhouse gas emissions and warned of their slow decline.
The exceedance of the Paris target has become inevitable by the end of the decade. On the eve of COP 30 in Brazil in early November, the UN and climatologists resigned but campaigned for it to be temporary.
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