Current COP26 climate plans would lead to 2.4°C of global warming

An investigation of the pledges enactment guardant by countries astatine the COP26 clime acme successful Glasgow truthful acold finds that emissions by 2030 autumn abbreviated of the cuts needed to bounds warming to the Paris Agreement people of 1.5°C

Environment 9 November 2021

By Adam Vaughan

Flooding successful Dayeuhkolot, Indonesia, past week.

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Researchers person poured acold h2o connected the thought that caller emissions plans enactment guardant for COP26 successful Glasgow, UK, acceptable the satellite connected way to conscionable targets to bounds unsafe planetary warming.

Climate Action Tracker (CAT), an independent, non-profit technological assemblage based successful Germany, said contiguous that governmental pledges to curb c dioxide emissions by 2030 were “totally inadequate” and would pb to emissions astir treble the level needed to clasp the somesthesia emergence to 1.5°C this century. The findings are published successful a study …