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National plans to limit global warming are falling short, according to a new United Nations report, stressing that these measures, if fully implemented, would cut emissions only by 2.6% from the 2019 levels.
A steeper cut in emissions — 43% by 2030 and 60% by 2035 according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — is needed to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (ºC).
The report synthesized information from the 168 latest available Nationally Determined Contributions of the 195 nations party to the Paris Agreement.
India updated its NDCs in August 2022. It submitted that by 2030 it would reduce the emissions intensity of its GDP by 45% from the 2005 level, and in 2030 at least 50% of installed electricity generation capacity would be from non-fossil fuel sources.
UN Climate Change executive secretary Simon Steill said: “The next round of national climate plans must deliver a dramatic step up in climate action and ambition.”
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