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Global climate action plans are “falling miles short” of what is needed to stop climate change from “crippling” economies, the United Nations has warned.
Current national climate plans submitted to the UN should be enough to cut global greenhouse gas emissions by 2.6% from 2019 to 2030, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) said in its annual assessment.
This marks only “marginal progress” since the same annual “Synthesis” report last year, when 2030 emissions were forecast to be 2.0% lower than in 2019.
And it is “only a fraction” of what is “urgently needed”, the UNFCCC said, given emissions should plummet 43% by 2030 in order to stave off the worst impacts of climate change, as per the advice from UN climate scientists.
It follows another stark warning last week from the UN Environment Programme, which found the chances of limiting global warming to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels – a key target in the landmark Paris Agreement – were “virtually zero”.
UNFCCC chief Simon Stiell said: “Current national climate plans fall miles short of what’s needed to stop global heating from crippling every economy, and wrecking billions of lives and livelihoods across every country.
“Much bolder new national climate plans cannot only avert climate chaos,” he said, but can also generate “stronger investment, economic growth and opportunity, more jobs, less pollution, better health and lower costs, more secure and affordable clean energy”.
Updated climate plans – known as Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) – are due by February and will map out measures up to 2035.
The UK government has pledged to submit its updated NDC in November, at the UN climate summit COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan.
Today’s warning puts more pressure on countries to come up with an ambitious agreement at COP29.
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