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By Kelly Macnamara<\/p>\n
Paris, France \u2013 International climate pledges remain far off track to limit temperature rises to 1.5 degrees Celsius, according to a UN report released Wednesday, less than two weeks ahead of high-stakes negotiations to tackle global warming.<\/p>\n
The combined climate pledges of more than 190 nations that signed up to the 2015 Paris climate deal put Earth on track to warm around 2.5C compared to pre-industrial levels by the century\u2019s end, the UN said.<\/p>\n
With the planet already battered by climate-enhanced heatwaves, storms and floods after just 1.2C of warming, experts say the world is still failing to act with sufficient urgency to curb greenhouse gas emissions.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are still nowhere near the scale and pace of emission reductions required to put us on track toward a 1.5 degrees Celsius world,\u201d said Simon Stiell, Executive Secretary of UN Climate Change.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo keep this goal alive, national governments need to strengthen their climate action plans now and implement them in the next eight years.\u201d<\/p>\n
The UN\u2019s climate experts have said emissions \u2013 compared to 2010 levels \u2013 need to fall 45 percent by 2030 in order to meet the Paris deal\u2019s more ambitious goal.<\/p>\n
In this latest report, the UN said that current commitments from governments around the world will in fact increase emissions by 10.6 percent by 2030.<\/p>\n
When nations met in Glasgow last year for a previous round of climate negotiations, they agreed to speed up their climate pledges to cut carbon pollution and increase financial flows to vulnerable developing nations.<\/p>\n
\u2018Disappointing\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n But only 24 countries, of 193, had updated their plans at the time of the report, which Stiell said was \u201cdisappointing\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cGovernment decisions and actions must reflect the level of urgency, the gravity of the threats we are facing, and the shortness of the time we have remaining to avoid the devastating consequences of runaway climate change,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n He called on governments to revisit and strengthen their carbon cutting plans in line with the Paris temperature goals before the UN climate meeting, which will be held from November 6 to 18 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.<\/p>\n Nations are meeting in the shadow of Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine and cascading global crises of hunger, energy prices and living costs, exacerbated by extreme weather.<\/p>\n Scientists have warned that any rise above 1.5C risks the collapse of ecosystems and the triggering of irreversible shifts in the climate system.<\/p>\n In the last year alone, the world has seen unprecedented floods, crop-withering heatwaves and wildfires across four continents.<\/p>\n With the impacts slamming hardest into countries least responsible for fossil fuel emissions, calls have grown louder for richer polluters to pay \u201closs and damage\u201d to vulnerable nations.<\/p>\n In a landmark report this year on climate impacts and vulnerabilities, the UN\u2019s 195-nation Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warned that time had nearly run out to ensure a \u201cliveable future\u201d for all.<\/p>\n That report was signed off by the same governments that will return to negotiations in Egypt.<\/p>\n Related Video:<\/strong><\/p>\n By Kelly Macnamara Paris, France \u2013 International climate pledges remain far off track to limit temperature rises to 1.5 degrees Celsius, according to a UN report released Wednesday, less than two weeks ahead of high-stakes negotiations to tackle global warming. The combined climate pledges of more than 190 nations that signed up to the 2015 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1235677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1235677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1235677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1235677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1235677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}