All the important stuff from the United Nations’ Emissions Gap report
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Set up to fail
According to the United Nations’ Emissions Gap report, the world is set to warm by about 2.7°C and that countries’ pledges to keep the global temperature under 1.5°C this century will fail.
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‘Wake up call’
United Nations’ Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, has called the report “another thundering wake-up call” ahead of the COP26 meet in Glasgow. While there is hope that net-zero goals will be achieved, there is still a lot of work left to be done.
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The pledge
Over 100 countries plan to cut emissions by 2030, and the latest pledges will cut a combined 7.5% in greenhouse emissions, which the report says is nowhere near enough to hit the 1.5°C threshold. To do that countries would have to cut emissions by 55%, by 2030. Current plans will see the planet warm up, instead of cooling it, which leaves the world eight years to make drastic plans, policies and then implement them.
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Leadership issue?
Guterres has termed the need for steep targets a political failure, calling the emissions gap a “result of leadership gaps,” but he also added that the situation could still be turned around.
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Hope yet
Fifty countries have pledged to hit net-zero by 2050, which could cover more than half of greenhouse gases currently being emitted. If implemented fully, 0.5°C could be shaved off the temperature rise. The real problem is countries sticking to these targets, which themselves are vague to begin with.