The world is far off track on its 2015 pledge to curb global warming.
or at least 2 degrees Celsius since pre-industrial times. It’s already warmed about 1.1 degrees since the mid-1800s. Limiting warming to 1.5 degrees is another window of opportunity that is rapidly closing, the report said.
Earlier this year, the World Meteorological Organization said there's aThe report “feels like a final warning,” said CEO Bill Hare, a climate scientist. “'If you guys don't get your act together, we're going to cook.'”, and ocean temperatures keep smashing records. The way the Paris agreement works is that every country makes its own carbon pollution pledges and efforts — and every five years they are supposed to ratchet them up. Key is that between those five years, climate negotiators come up with what’s like a midterm grade for the world’s efforts and a roadmap for preventing more dangerous warming.released Friday. After three years of work by scientists, government officials and others, the United Nations’ climate agency came up with a technical report that is supposed to lead to something bigger this December when world leaders and climate negotiators convene in Dubai. Negotiators plan to use this report and discussions later this year to figure out what nations and the world as a whole will do next to fight climate change. “This global stocktake report provides clear direction on how we can meet the expectations of the Paris agreement by taking decisive action in this critical decade,” said Al Jaber, an oil executive. “To keep 1.5 within reach we must act with ‘ambition and urgency’ to reduce emissions 43% by 2030.” Two years ago, climate negotiators battled over adopting language calling for an end or phase-out of unabated coal use — where emissions are not captured and stored — and instead opted for weaker “phase down” language. Then, last year, a proposal to phase out or down all fossil fuels was made, but never was put on the agenda or officially debated. “There's no question that the ‘phase out’ language is an important marker,” said Waskow of the World Resources Institute. The report does highlight progress made on renewable energy and other efforts to combat warming. But “the progress isn't enough,” said Tom Evans, a senior policy advisor at the European think tank E3G. “We're off track. We are nowhere near where we need to be.” “The takeaway from the report shouldn't just be that we're off track,” Evans said. “The takeaway from this report needs to be: This is what we can do about this."
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