UN warns that plans to expand oil, gas and coal production would push the world beyond agreed global warming limits.
Plans to expand oil, gas and coal production by major fossil fuel countries would push the world far beyond agreed global warming limits and are “throwing humanity’s future into question”, the UN warned Wednesday.
But the annual United Nations Environment Programme Production Gap report makes it clear that the production plans of the top 20 producing countries — including the United States, China, Russia, Australia, India and COP28 host United Arab Emirates — are heading in the opposite direction.It found that planned increases in production in these countries would produce 460 percent more coal, 82 percent more gas, and 29 percent more oil than would be consistent with limiting warming to 1.5C.
“Starting at COP28, nations must unite behind a managed and equitable phase-out of coal, oil and gas — to ease the turbulence ahead and benefit every person on this planet.”Burning fossil fuels is by far the main cause of climate change, accounting for most of the pollution driving global warming and the ensuing barrage of temperature records, devastating weather disasters and sea level rise.
US authorities forecast oil production will reach and remain at “record high levels” from 2024 to 2050, with gas production continuously increasing, the report said. UNEP hailed that pledge as a “significant milestone” but noted that since then production and use of fossil fuels have “reached record high levels”.
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