Nearly every nation is coming up short — most of them far short — in their efforts to fight climate change, and the world is unlikely to hold warming to the internationally agreed-upon limit, according to a new scientific report.
Only one nation — tiny The Gambia in Africa — is on track to cut emissions and undertake its share of actions to keep the world from exceeding the Paris agreement goal of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) of warming since pre-industrial times, the report said.
Only one industrialized nation — the United Kingdom — is even close to doing what it should to cut emissions of heat-trapping gases and finance clean energy for poorer nations, the Climate Action Tracker reported Wednesday.
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In May, after U.S. President Joe Biden’s climate summit, enough nations had promised big enough carbon pollution cuts that the tracker said the “emissions gap” — the difference between emissions projections with pledges and what's required to meet the 1.5 degree goal — dropped 11%.
IntentionFalse8822 on October 2nd, 2021 at 20:00 UTC »
We basically shut the world down last year and every country bar one still missed their targets. Shows how difficult the challenge ahead of us is.
thankyouforthechat on October 2nd, 2021 at 17:33 UTC »
Man I wish the article said what Gambia did right even if it was very little instead of just telling us the bigger countries aren't doing enough.
DWHallLiu on October 2nd, 2021 at 17:29 UTC »
The Gambia was probably already hitting its goals before any agreement.