Among the laggards is the United Arab Emirates, host of the upcoming United Nations climate summit. Read more at straitstimes.com.
LONDON – A new scientific assessment of government commitments to eliminate greenhouse gas emissions found most lack credibility and would put the world on track to experience catastrophic global warming by the end of this century.
Only New Zealand, the European Union and the UK ranked in the “higher” confidence category, but big challenges remain despite better progress towards net-zero. While Europe’s energy sector has gone a long way to reduce its emissions, carbon pollution has been more stubborn in the agricultural and industrial sectors.
For the lowest-ranking countries, Prof Rogelj said that “after they made a pledge or a promise, there’s very little evidence on the ground that this translated into action”. A COP presidency, while hosted by a government, is expected to take a neutral stance. Yet past COP presidencies have used an ambitious NDC from their host government as an example to showcase how to set credible targets, said Prof Rogelj, and “the fact that the UAE scores so low puts a very low credibility mark on their presidency as a whole”.
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