2023-11-20 16:01:28
The commitments made by the international community are still more than insufficient to achieve the objectives and limit global warming. It is the United Nations which says this this Monday, November 20 in a report dedicated to this gap between what is planned and what should actually be done. An injunction to States to increase their ambition ten days before the COP28 on climate.
Published on: 11/20/2023 – 3:01 p.m.
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The Paris agreement adopted at COP21 in 2015 brought two advances: first of all, an objective. Limit global warming to well below two degrees, if possible to 1.5 degrees. And then a method: each State must formalize its commitments to achieve this.
The account is not there
Eight years later, the United Nations is counting it and we are not there, far from it: taken as a whole, the measures set by the international community lead to a warming of between 2.5 and 2.9 degrees. by the end of the century. The cause is human emissions of greenhouse gases, responsible for global warming.
The UN estimates that they will increase by another 3% by 2030 while they should decrease and not just a little: – 28% to contain the rise in temperatures to + 2 degrees, and – 42% for objective of one and a half degrees. The United Nations has nevertheless noted progress since the Paris agreement. If nothing had been done since then, emissions would not have increased by 3% in 2030 but by 16%.
New commitments
However, this remains insufficient: States must significantly revise their ambitions upwards. And it is planned: they must make new, updated commitments by 2025.
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