Scientists say countries need to cut emissions far deeper to prevent catastrophic warming. That fact will hang over delegates when they meet later this year at the annual U.N. climate talks
CLIMATEWIRE | When global leaders meet later this year to negotiate climate action, the urgency to cut planet-warming emissions will be starker than ever before.
The need for far greater action is likely to hang over delegates when they meet for COP 28 in late November in the United Arab Emirates. The climate talks are where countries will evaluate their progress — or the lack of it — toward achieving their 2030 climate targets, a process known as the global stocktake.
But that call is not enforceable. It also hasn’t generated much response, aside from a recent comment by Dan Jørgensen, Denmark’s climate minister, that the European Union may exceed its pledge to cut emissions 55 percent by 2030. Climate Action Tracker, an independent analysis of climate policy, expects the UAE’s emissions to grow by 2030 due to plans to increase gas use. The country's current climate targets would see emissions flatten but not fall, when they need to be slashed nearly in half.
‘We’re not done in 2030’ The IPCC's latest climate assessment is not just focused on the need to drastically reduce emissions. It also points out the need for more equity between rich and poor countries, the importance of investing in resilience, and the availability of many of the tools needed to stop the planet from overheating.
In 2025, countries will need to set new climate targets known as nationally determined contributions. But there won’t be another IPCC report until 2029, so this week's assessment was the last chance scientists had to showcase how much faster countries need to slash their climate pollution. “We also know that what we need to do to get to net zero was always really focused on making a lot of progress in this decade,” she added.
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