CO2: 416.75 ppmGlobal emissions must be reduced by roughly 45% by 2030 to limit devastating impacts of climate change, but nations are on track to reduce emissions by less than 1%, report says.
The Paris agreement target for CO2 reduction is 45% of 2010 levels by 2030. The report found just a 0.5% fall estimated.
Nations are “nowhere close” to the level of action needed to fight global warming, a UN climate action report said on Friday, urging countries to adopt stronger and more ambitious plans to reach the Paris Agreement goals, and limit the temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius, by the end of the century.
The planet is on "red alert" because governments are failing to meet their climate change goals, the United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said Friday.
Leading climate scientists are freaking out. That’s a clear takeaway from a new report commissioned by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the body that represents the 197 signatories of the Paris Climate Agreement.
Progress report finds current climate plans would see emissions fall by just one per cent by 2030, when compared to 2010 levels
The UN climate change body, in a new report, says that current emissions targets are not enough to avoid severe climate impacts