According to the report,
the current emission reduction pledges associated with the Copenhagen Accord fall short of the 2020 goals required to provide a reasonable chance of limiting warming to 2 °C, without requiring potentially infeasible post-2020 reduction rates.
Current emission reduction pledges will lead us to a world that is 5 °C warmer.
The letter calls on developed countries to urgently scale up the ambition of their emission reduction targets and reminds negotiators that
current emission reduction pledges will lead us to a world that is 5 °C warmer.
Three major gaps can and must be bridged in the remaining time: the gap between
current emission reduction pledges and the science; the gap between the finances on the table and the need in developing countries; and — perhaps most critically — the gap between nations where trust must be forged.
The current emissions reductions pledges made under the Paris Agreement by developed countries are so lacking in ambition that they will fail to drive the urgent transition that is needed.
Current emissions reduction pledges, therefore, still guarantee disaster.
Current emissions reduction pledges could lead temperatures to rise 2.5 to 5 degrees by 2100, the UN Environment Program said Nov. 23.
Not exact matches
If CO2
emissions reductions are moderately reduced in line with
current national
pledges under the Paris Climate Agreement, biomass plantations implemented by mid-century to extract remaining excess CO2 from the air still would have to be enormous.
The European Union's new commissioner says the EU should stay the course on its
current pledge of a 20 %
reduction in greenhouse gas
emissions by 2020.
This technical document provides the following information: - An update of global greenhouse gas
emission estimates, based on a number of different authoritative scientific sources; - An overview of national
emission levels, both
current (2010) and projected (2020) consistent with
current pledges and other commitments; - An estimate of the level of global
emissions consistent with the two degree target in 2020, 2030 and 2050; - An update of the assessment of the «
emissions gap» for 2020; - A review of selected examples of the rapid progress being made in different parts of the world to implement policies already leading to substantial
emission reductions and how they can be scaled up and replicated in other countries, with the view to bridging the
emissions gap.
This technical document presents the latest estimates of the
emissions gap in 2020 and provides plentiful information, including about
current (2010) and projected (2020) levels of global greenhouse gas
emissions, both in the absence of additional policies and consistent with national
pledge implementation; the implications of starting decided
emission reductions now or in the coming decades; agricultural development policies that can help increase yields, reduce fertilizer usage and bring about other benefits, while reducing
emissions of greenhouse gases; and, international cooperative initiatives that, while potentially overlapping with
pledges, can complement them and help bridge the
emissions gap.
It is both EPA's most aggressive greenhouse gas regulatory program to date and the core of the U.S.
emission -
reduction pledge in the
current round of climate treaty negotiations.
A recent UNEP report shows that
current voluntary
pledges for
emission reductions are far below the levels necessary to avert dangerous climate change, and could lead to a 5C rise in temperature.
The gap between the Paris temperature goals and the
current policy scenario is higher still, given that many countries are not yet on track to achieve their
emissions -
reduction pledges, but this is to be expected given that
pledges extending to 2030 are still fairly new.
These include 117 U.S. cities, with total average U.S. city
pledges at 68 % GHG
emissions reductions below their
current levels by 2050.
The US appears on track to meet it's 2020
emission reduction pledge under the 2009 Copenhagen Accord but will need to significantly accelerate the
current pace of
emission reductions to meet it's Paris Agreement targets.
>> The temperature response to the
current set of
emission -
reduction pledges is c. 10 °C, not c. 4 °C as indicated in the SPM.
However,
current national
emissions -
reduction pledges appear to be insufficient to keep global warming below 2 °C [2].