UNEP Warns Latest Country Climate Plans Have Minimal Impact on Future Warming
The head of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has cautioned that the most recent national climate plans "barely move the needle" on reducing future global warming.
UNEP's 16th Annual Emissions Gap Report
The warning came as UNEP published its 16th annual assessment, which evaluates the difference between projected global emissions based on current national policies and the levels required to meet international temperature targets.
- The report highlights that updated national climate plans submitted under the Paris Agreement this year are expected to have only a “limited effect” on closing the emissions gap.
- If all current emissions-cutting plans are fully implemented by 2035, global warming is still projected to reach 2.3–2.5°C this century.
Comments from UNEP Executive Director Inger Anderson
“While national climate plans have delivered some progress, it is nowhere near fast enough.”
Role of the Paris Agreement
The UN agency recognizes the Paris Agreement’s crucial role in lowering temperature projections and boosting renewable energy policies and targets over the past decade. Yet, it stresses that insufficient emissions reductions mean the world is “very likely” to exceed the Agreement’s more ambitious temperature goal.
Summary
Despite progress, UNEP emphasizes that current climate actions are inadequate to prevent significant global warming, urging faster and deeper emission cuts.
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