Only One Big Economy Is Aiming for Paris Agreement’s 1.5C Goal
The UK is currently an outlier with an increasingly ambitious climate plan after more than 170 countries missed a UN deadline.
Keir Starmer, UK prime minister, speaks during a visit to the Encirc Glass factory in Chester on Oct. 4.
Photographer: Anthony Devlin/BloombergSeven of the 10 world’s largest economies missed a deadline on Monday to submit updated emissions-cutting plans to the United Nations — and only one, the UK, outlined a strategy for the next decade that keeps pace with expectations staked out under the Paris Agreement.
All countries taking part in the UN process had been due to send their national climate plans for the next decade by Feb. 10, but relatively few got theirs in on time. Dozens more nations will likely come forward with updated plans within the next nine months before the UN’s annual climate summit, known as COP30, kicks off in Brazil.