The world remains woefully off track in its efforts to halt the warming of the planet despite “near-universal climate action” driven by the landmark 2015 Paris agreement.
FILE - A man rows a boat down a residential street after flooding in Angleur, Province of Liege, Belgium, July 16, 2021. The head of this year’s United Nations’ climate talks called Thursday, July 13, 2023, for governments and businesses to tackle global warming by reducing greenhouse gas emissions in all regions and sectors if they want to stop the planet from passing a key temperature limit agreed more than seven years ago.
That global “stocktake,” to determine whether the world is actually on pace to cut its emissions enough to meet the most ambitious aims of the Paris accord, will document some bright spots - for instance, that emissions have peaked in developed and some developing countries.“On the whole, we’re not doing well,” David Waskow, director of the World Resources Institute’s International Climate Initiative, said in an interview. That much, Friday’s report again makes clear.
That same analysis found that even if countries fulfilled existing pledges, it would still put the Earth on a path to warm by a dangerous 2.4 degrees Celsius by the end of the century, compared with preindustrial levels. That is far beyond the 1.5 degrees Celsius limit written into the Paris agreement.
In some ways, Friday’s U.N. assessment marks merely the latest chapter in a massive compendium of research and reports that outline the many ways in which the world has failed to adequately confront the perils of climate change.
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