According to UNEP, new emissions reduction commitments submitted by countries under the Paris Agreement on climate change only reduce emissions by 7.5% expected by 2030.
Emissions released from a factory in Scunthorpe, UK (Photo: AFP/VNA)On October 26, the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) released a report assessing new emissions reduction commitments submitted by countries under the Paris Agreement on climate change.
The report asserts that these plans are not enough to significantly reduce carbon pollution in the short term, and that according to that roadmap, Earth's temperature by the end of this century will still increase by 2.7 degrees Celsius compared to which in the previous century, the pre-industrial revolution.
According to UNEP, these new commitments will only reduce emissions by 7.5% expected by 2030. To achieve the goal of limiting the global temperature increase to only 1.5 Celsius degrees by the end of the century, reductions are needed up to 55%, 7 times higher than these latest commitments.
As the 26th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) opens next week, the UN climate agency said that the commitments submitted by new countries are the basis for affirming the United Nations' concerns about the delay in making commitments high enough to prevent and reverse global warming.
In its assessment report on new NDC submissions ahead of COP26, the United Nations reported that 143 countries had submitted new or updated NDCs before.
In September, in an integrated assessment of climate plans submitted by countries under the Paris Climate Agreement, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) also recognized Consistent with the commitments outlined in the plans, global temperatures will increase by 2.7 celsius degrees by 2100 compared to pre-industrial times.
IPCC President Patricia Espinosa emphasized that the message from the new assessment report is clear: more efforts are needed by all parties if they are to prevent global temperature rise within the 2°C limitation and ideally 1.5 degrees Celsius by the end of the century as set out in the Paris Agreement on climate change.
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