UN warns climate pledges not going far enough

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Houston Chronicle by  James Osborne Nov. 26, 2019

World leaders’efforts to shift away from fossil fuels and slow climate change are not going quickly enough to avoid environmental catastrophe, the United Nations said in a report Monday.

Considering current emissions and the existing pledges by individual countries, the earth’s temperature would rise by almost six degrees Fahrenheit, far beyond the goal set at the Paris meeting on climate change in 2015. To avoid that scenario — which scientists predict will lead to deadly heat waves and flooding, among other effects — nations will need to increase their pledged carbon reductions five fold between 2020 and 2030, read the UN’s annual Emissions Gap Report.

"For 10 years, the Emissions Gap Report has been sounding the alarm - and for 10 years, the world has only increased its emissions,” UN Secretary-General António Guterres said in a statement. “There has never been a more important time to listen to the science. Failure to heed these warnings and take drastic action to reverse emissions means we will continue to witness deadly and catastrophic heatwaves, storms and pollution.”

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"UN warns climate pledges not going far enough"

When it comes to the UN, this is "how far" we should go:

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UN Panic Button: Mass Extinctions By 2100 Even with Paris Agreement Climate Pledges

Watts up with That? by Eric Worrall 11/26/2019

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/11/26/un-panic-mass-extinctions-by-2100-even-with-paris-agreement-climate-pledges/

According to the United Nations, waiting until the end of 2020 is not an option, the crisis has to be addressed now.

U.N. warns world not doing nearly enough to avert climate catastrophe

UPDATED ON: NOVEMBER 26, 2019 / 8:23 AM / CBS/AP

Geneva — Countries have procrastinated for too long and need to begin making steep cuts to their greenhouse gas emissions immediately, or risk missing agreed targets for limiting , a senior United Nations official said Tuesday. The appeal by Inger Andersen, who heads the U.N. Environment Program, came days before governments gather in Madrid for an annual climate change meeting.

“We need quick wins to reduce emissions as much as possible in 2020,” Andersen said, as her agency published its annual “emissions gap” report showing the amount of planet-heating gases being pumped into the atmosphere hitting a new high last year, despite a near-global pledge to reduce them.

Current national pledges would leave the world 5.8 Fahrenheit warmer by 2100 than pre-industrial times, with dramatic consequences for life on Earth, the U.N. agency said, adding that getting the world back on track to limit the increase to 2.7 degrees (1.5 Celsius) would require a fivefold increase in measures pledged so far.

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