ountries’ moves to increase climate action have slowed to a standstill despite scientists issuing a “code red” for humanity, analysis has found.
A new update by Climate Action Tracker of nations’ action plans for cutting emissions over the next decade finds none are doing what is needed to avoid catastrophic warming.
Only one country, The Gambia is rating as having overall climate action that is in line with limiting global warming to 1.5C, a target which countries pledged to try to meet under the international Paris Agreement on the issue in 2015.
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Among major economies, only the UK is close to doing what is sufficient to meet the 1.5C target and avoid the worst impacts of the planet heating up, the analysis warns.
That is despite a report from the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which UN secretary general Antonio Guterres described as a code red for humanity, making it clear humans were driving dangerous global warming and that urgent action was needed to limit temperature rises to 1.5C.
Source: Evening Standard
