In a report released just weeks before high-stakes climate negotiations, the United Nations climate change organisation said the world was failing to act with sufficient urgency to curb greenhouse gas emissions. The U.N. found that combined climate plans from nearly 200 nations would put the world on a path for 2030 carbon emissions just 2% below 2019 levels. Climate Change chief Simon Stiell. Scientists have warned that humanity is dangerously close to blowing past the 1.5°C global heating limit, risking intensifying impacts. In September, a global stocktake of the world’s progress on averting the worst impacts of climate change warned that the world was far off target.

Source: The Hindu November 14, 2023 14:13 UTC