That "highly inadequate" inaction means the window is closing, but not quite shut yet, on efforts to keep future warming to just a few more tenths of a degree from now, according to Thursday's"Global and national climate commitments are falling pitifully short," United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Thursday.
"In all likelihood we will pass by 1.5," UNEP Executive Director Inger Andersen told The Associated Press in an interview.The world has already warmed 1.1 degrees since pre-industrial times. The emissions gap is the difference between the amount of carbon pollution being spewed between now and 2030 and the lower levels needed to keep warming to 1.5 or 2 degrees.
"The way things are going though we'll zip past 1.5C, past 2C and - heaven help us - even 2.5 or 3C," he said."Renewables are booming and cheaper than ever. But COVID stimulus plans and the war in Ukraine have disrupted global energy markets and led some countries revert to coal and other fuels. This can't continue in a safe climate."
The G20 nations, the richest countries, are responsible for 75 per cent of the heat-trapping pollution, Andersen said, adding "clearly the more those G20s lean in, the better we will be".Taking out the special cases of Turkey and Russia, current polices by G20 nations fall 2.6 billion tonnes a year short of the 2030 goal, the report said.
No the UN dropped the ball years ago when they allowed China and India to have a pass until 2030.
Spending every cent you have will not change what the planet has done for millions of years. The planet and it's atmosphere will continue to do what it is destined to do and nothing you do will change that.
This is not because of climate change. You build housing the water has got to go somewhere! LOL
9NewsQueensland Because the truth will always win !
I don’t believe we are the issue at all. It’s government agendas to drive fear, control and compliance.
9NewsSyd We teach climate change as a fact in every school. Here’s the science.
9NewsMelb Those are the words of a Socialist who is promoting climate policies to destroy our wealth, our free markets and capitalism.
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9NewsMelb What r u meant to do ? Dig more lithium out of the ground, maybe more copper? Even colbolt , but leave the oil that has established mines !! I call B.S