Climate plans fail to limit temperature rise to 1.5 degrees, UN report reveals

UN: A major revelation in a UN report has been made that existing climate plans are far behind the measures needed to limit temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a United Nations body that evaluates climate science, said that global emissions need to be reduced by 43 percent by 2030 and 60 percent by 2035 to limit temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius.

Mon, 28 Oct 2024 08:47 PM (IST)
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Climate plans fail to limit temperature rise to 1.5 degrees, UN report reveals
Climate plans fail to limit temperature rise to 1.5 degrees, UN report reveals

Plans for climate change are inadequate to limit the increase in temperature to 1.5 degrees. To limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, global emissions must be cut by 43% by 2030 and 60% by 2035, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a United Nations (UN) organization that evaluates climate change.

According to a recent report, countries' existing national action plans to combat climate change can only cut global emissions by 2.6% by 2030 compared to 2019 levels. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, global emissions must be cut by 43% by 2030 and 60% by 2035 in order to keep the temperature increase to 1.5 degrees Celsius. Information from the 195 most recent national climate plans for the Paris Agreement of 168 partners is compiled in the new UN report.

The report indicated that this will be 49.8% more than in 1990, 8.3% more than in 2010, 2.6% less than in 2019, and 2.8% less than the estimated level of 2025. This would mean that it is possible for global emissions to peak before 2030. According to the report, accounting for the updated NDCs, cumulative global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, excluding land use, land-use change, and forestry or LULUCF, would amount to approximately 51.5 (48.3-54.7) gigatons of carbon dioxide in the year 2030.

UN climate chief Simon Still said the report's findings are shocking but unsurprising: Current national climate plans remain miles off the mark from what is actually needed to avoid that global warming cripples every economy and ruins the lives and livelihoods of billions in every country, state or region. Still furthered that even though these plans are set at the national level, concrete rules, laws, and plans can be implemented.

The new climate finance target is very important to developing and low-income countries. They argue that asking them to do more-in a context where many people are still haunted by poverty and poor infrastructures NEXT to worsening climate impacts-undermines the principle of equity. These countries are accountable to offer financial support and technology to ease the transition and adaptation for developing countries about dealing with climate change. These include the United States, Canada, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, and member states of the EU such as Germany and France.

Muskan Kumawat Journalist & Writer