The Paris Agreement saw 196 countries signing up to a legally binding treaty to hold ‘the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels’ and pursue efforts ‘to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels’ are forecast to rise by about 1 per cent to a new record this year, according to a key analysis.
“It is more disappointing that fossil CO₂ emissions continue to grow rather than surprising,” said Glenn Peters, of the The Global Carbon Projects is led by Exeter University and involves more than 100 scientists from 18 countries. Its assessments carry considerable weight among scientists and policymakers.
“There is little evidence emissions will go down, little evidence it will grow remarkably high,” he said.