Government plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions aren\u2019t enough to avoid catastrophic global warming, with the planet on track to heat up between 2.1 and 2.9 degrees Celsius by the end of the century compared to pre-industrial times, according to a new report from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.<\/p>\n
Despite some progress in the last year, governments need to do more by 2030 to ensure that the global temperature increase is below 2C and ideally closer to 1.5C \u2014 the goal set in the Paris Agreement reached in 2015. The UNFCCC reached its conclusions by analyzing all national climate plans, also known as nationally-determined contributions or NDCs, submitted since 2015. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe good news \u2014 projections show emissions won\u2019t be increasing after 2030,\u201d\u00a0UN climate change executive secretary Simon Stiell told reporters on Wednesday. \u201cThe bad news \u2013 they\u2019re still not demonstrating the rapid downward trend scientists say is necessary this decade.\u201d<\/p>\n
Climate scientists estimate that human-caused\u00a0greenhouse gas emissions need to halve by the end of this decade, and to be eliminated by mid-century in order to keep warming below 2C by 2100. While the consequences of planetary heating\u00a0above that threshold are deemed to be catastrophic, today\u2019s warming of 1.1C above pre-industrial times has already resulted in irreversible changes, according to the\u00a0latest report<\/a>\u00a0from the UN\u00a0Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.<\/p>\n Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n Government plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions are not enough to avert catastrophic global warming, according to a UN report https:\/\/t.co\/v4jraOHa97<\/a><\/p>\n — Bloomberg (@business) October 26, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n \n