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«Significant» reductions needed The U.N. Environment Programme's «Emissions Gap 2012» report cautions that even if nations meet their strictest pledges, the world will not be able to cut its output of greenhouse gases in time to prevent runaway global warming (ClimateWire, Nov. 21).

The United Nations Environment Programme's annual Emissions Gap Report, expected in November, includes commitments both on mitigation and adaptation.

As a self - proclaimed «climate leader» the UK government has a critical role to play in closing the «emissions gap» — the gap between the current global trajectory of greenhouse gas emissions and the actions necessary to limit warming to 1.5 ˚C and «well below» 2 ˚C (and hence reduce the risks of disaster), they write.

New Paradigm: Under one scenario to achieve Land Degradation Neutrality (Sustainable Development Goal target 15.3), additional commitments in the land use sector, namely to restore and rehabilitate 12 million hectares of degraded land per year could help close the emissions gap by up to 25 % in the year 2030.

If we want to stay within 2 degrees, we must massively invest in sequestration; and we could, in 15 years, halve the emissions gap» by making soil carbon sequestration part of the Paris deal.

The world should increase its ambition to cut roughly a further quarter off predicted 2030 global greenhouse emissions and have any chance of minimizing dangerous climate change, UN Environment said today as it released its annual Emissions Gap... read more

On the 5th of November, the latest Emissions Gap Report was released, in advance of the Climate Change Conference...

In these ways, the emissions gap report gives the questionable impression that despite increasing emissions there's always a way to reach the 2C target, it's always «five minutes to midnight.»

In the meantime, here are a few sobering, but valuable reactions to the latest emissions gap news:

Do you see an emissions gap?

[The United Nations Environment Program has posted the full 2015 Emissions Gap Report here.]

This past November, the UNEP released the 2014 edition of their annual «Emissions Gap Report,» which highlighted the important role that carbon dioxide removal («CDR») solutions are likely to play in preventing climate change.

Above: the projected emissions gap in 2030 in the UNEP report shows that countries are not planning to make the necessary GHG emissions reductions to avoid overshooting our carbon «budget», meaning that large - scale CDR would be necessary to fill the gap and prevent climate change.

Above: the blue - shaded regions of the graphs from the UNEP Emissions Gap Report 2014 show that we are on track to overshoot the «budget» of carbon we can emit into the atmosphere without triggering significant climate change.

In its «Bridging the Emissions Gap» report published at the end of 2011, UNEP undertook a systematic assessment of the size of what we should by rights be calling the Multi-Gigatonne Gap, concluding that it is in the range of 6 - 11 Gt.

Similarly, the recently published UNEP Emissions gap report (UNEP 2014) assessed the literature on 1.5 C scenarios.

The United Nations (UN) Environment program has released its eighth annual Emissions Gap Report, which ominously found that greenhouse gas emissions are set to overshoot the Paris climate deal by about 30 percent.

The HFC phase - down could also prevent up to 0.5 oC of warming by 2100, thereby helping to close the emissions gap and limit global warming below 2oC.

doi: 10.1038 / nclimate1584 UNEP (2014) The emissions gap report 2014.

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Emissions Gap Report 2016 published today is yet another proof that ambitious objectives of the Paris Agreement require stronger short term action already before 2020 and deeper emission cuts in the period until 2030.

This week, the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) will launch «The Emissions Gap Report».

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.

This is the first time since the CAT began tracking action in 2009 that policies at a national level have visibly reduced its end - of - century temperature estimate and also reduced the 2030 emissions gap between current policies and what is needed to meet the 1.5 °C temperature limit.

According to the 2017 U.N. Emissions Gap report (PDF), even if all countries fulfill the pledges they made in the run - up to Paris, we'd only be a third of the way to the reductions needed to keep warming to less than 2 degrees Celsius.

Negotiations on the international climate regime have begun in Warsaw at a time when the scientific community, including the IPCC in its recent report on the Physical Basis for Climate Change Science and UNEP in its just released Emissions Gap Report, are advising the international community that the world is running out of time to prevent dangerous climate change.

The fifth Emissions Gap Report 2014 by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), which was [continue reading...]

Read EIA's full briefing, Bridging the Emissions Gap with an HFC Amendment under the Montreal Protocol, here.

The UNEP Emissions Gap report underscored this lack of ambition and transparency by finding that weak rules, bad LULUCF accounting, and the potential carry - over of emissions credits could add 1 - 2 Gt CO2e to the already sizeable Gigatonne Gap.

For contrast, the UNEP Emissions Gap Report finds that for a least - cost emissions pathway consistent with a likely chance of limiting warming to 2 degrees C, emissions are 48 Gt CO2e in 2025 and 42 Gt CO2e in 2030.

On Friday, the UNEP Emissions Gap Report joined a series of studies released over the past few weeks assessing how much countries» recent climate change announcements, or intended nationally determined contributions (INDCs), contribute to combating warming.

Climate Change, the U.S. Military, and «the Intersection of Politics and Events» The UN Environment Emissions Gap report shows we are moving in the right direction.

This «emissions gap» between the reductions pledged and those needed to keep the climate under control is growing larger, based on new data to be released this week by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and Hare's group.

In a little less than a month's time, we have the opportunity to build upon the momentum unleashed by the INDCs and start to close the emissions gap to have a fighting chance of keeping global average temperature below 2 degrees C.

Over the past four years the «emissions gap» series published by the United Nations Environment Program has analysed the size of the gap and has provided insights on options to close it.

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They assessed the «green growth component» of forests and landscapes to bridge the «emissions gap».

This fifth report provides an updated measure of the emissions gap.

Over the past four years the «emissions gap» series published by the United Nations Environment Programme has analysed the size of the gap and has provided insights on options to close it.

Source: Bridging the aviation CO2 emissions gap

A UNEP report published last week says we can bridge this «emissions gap» by combining faster uptake of renewable energy, improved energy efficiency, and cuts to other greenhouse gases.

United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), 2010, The Emissions Gap Report, http://www.unep.org/publications/ebooks/emissionsgapreport/index.asp

This is evident both with the rules, and closing the emissions gap.

She co-authored a number of policy brief and reports, including the Policies that Work series, and she was a lead author of the most recent Emissions Gap Report, which was published by the UN Environmental Program (UNEP).

Taryn is a lead author of the UNEP Emissions Gap Report and a member of the board of the GHG Management Institute.

Given the scale and urgency we face in closing the emissions gap, the Talanoa Dialogue must go further at COP24 to achieve its purpose of fostering greater ambition.

Reductions of these pollutants will limit the rate of short - term warming, and when sustained and combined with reductions in carbon dioxide emissions, they help to limit long - term warming, which is the ultimate aim of closing the emissions gap.

Every year, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) brings together scientists from around the world to measure the size of the greenhouse gas (GHG) «emissions gap,» the difference between the emissions level countries have pledged to achieve under international agreements and the level consistent with limiting warming to well below 2 degrees C (3.6 degrees F).

Negative emission technologies assessed in the report Update on global greenhouse gas emissions This year, the Emissions Gap Report includes an assessment of the emissions associated with the Nationally Determined Contributions and current policies of each of the G20 members, including the European Union.

That's more than what's needed to close the emissions gap and keep warming below 1.5 degrees C.