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What is the News?
The United Nations Environment Programme(UNEP) has released an update to their Emissions Gap Report 2021.
What are the key findings of the report?
Several Countries have announced new Nationally Determined Contributions(NDCs) or emissions pledges during the COP26 climate summit. For example, India has announced a target to be carbon-neutral by 2070.
However, after the assessment of these new pledges, it was found that the outcome was very similar, largely because the most ambitious emissions cuts are envisaged after 2030.
Moreover, the report has found that there is a huge gap between the emissions cuts needed this decade to keep warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius and the continuing increases in greenhouse gases pumped into the atmosphere.
Hence, the report has projected that the country’s renewed NDCs would see emissions increase by 13.7% till 2030 before sharply declining thereafter. But to keep in line with 1.5 degrees Celsius, emissions must fall 45% by then.
Source: This post is based on the article “New Climate Pledges barely affect global warming: UN” published in The Hindu on 10th November 2021.
