Landmark UN Study Shows Widespread Failure to Meet Climate Goals
The world hasn’t been reducing emissions fast enough to reach a stretch goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius before the end of the century, a first-of-its-kind assessment finds.
Firefighters and volunteers work to extinguish a wildfire near the village of Dikella, west of Alexandroupolis, Greece, on Aug. 22, 2023.
Photographer: Konstantinos Tsakalidis/BloombergA landmark United Nations assessment of global progress on cutting emissions shows countries are largely failing to meet their commitments, putting the planet on course for catastrophic global warming.
The UN’s climate change secretariat calculated the progress every country in the world has made on their pledges to reduce emissions and assessed how much it’s helping to tackle global warming. The answer is not enough.