Articole | | Încărcat de: Gero Rueter
UN report: Global climate ambitions ‘off target’
As global leaders head to the Brazilian city of Belem to discuss how to keep runaway global heating in check, a new report underscores the need for solid national climate commitments.
Against the backdrop of rising temperatures that marked 2024 as the hottest ever on record, the United Nations Environment Program’s (UNEP) latest Emissions Gap Report says the predicted global temperature increase over the course of this century has only slightly fallen, „leaving the world heading for serious escalation of climate risks.”
As emissions continue to rise — albeit more slowly — the authors said the world was on track to overshoot the 1.5 degree Celsius threshold, „at least temporarily.”
Signatories to the 2015 Paris climate accord agreed to try and limit temperatures from rising more than 2 degrees above pre-industrialization levels, with efforts to cap the increase at 1.5 C.
