The_CO2 plans provide only one-sixth of what is required to limit warming

Governments’ climate action plans submitted to the UN will see global greenhouse gas emissions begin to decline over the next 10 years, but it won’t be fast enough to prevent worsening climate change and extreme weather events. This was indicated by the UN on Tuesday. The analysis by the United Nations climate change secretariat points out that if national plans to address climate change are carried out, the annual amount of planet-warming gases added to the atmosphere would decrease by 10% by 2035, compared to 2019 levels. It is the first time the United Nations has forecast a continued decline in global emissions, which have risen steadily since 1990. However, this projected 10% reduction is well below the 60% reduction in emissions needed in 2035 to limit global warming to 1.5ºC above pre-industrial temperatures. This is the threshold beyond which, according to scientists, much more serious impacts would be triggered. This deficit increases the pressure ahead of next month’s climate summit in Brazil (COP30), where countries are being pressured to redouble their efforts, although the withdrawal of the United States from the Paris Agreement is a serious setback for this negotiation. “Humanity is clearly reducing the emissions curve for the first time, although not yet fast enough,” said the executive director of the Climate Change Convention, Simon Stiell. “Now it’s up to COP30 and the world to respond and demonstrate how we’re going to pick up the pace,” Stiell said in a statement.

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