UN gives countries more time to submit “quality” climate plans for 2035
Published on 06/02/2025, 6:50pm
China, the EU and India are among big polluters set to miss this month’s deadline for new targets as concerns grow of a “softening” in climate ambition
Belém in Brazil is hosting COP30. When is the deadline for countries to submit 2035 climate plans?
The sea front in Belém, Brazil, which is hosting the COP30 climate summit in November (Photo: mlcastle/Flickr)
By Chloé Farand
The head of the UN climate change body has urged countries to submit new “first-rate” climate targets by September, after only a handful of countries published updated plans to cut emissions ahead of a February deadline.
Under the Paris Agreement, adopted nearly a decade ago, countries are expected to submit targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 2035, and set out how they will reach them, by a – largely symbolic – deadline of February 10.
But only a handful of countries have submitted those plans, known as Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), to the UN so far.
https://www.climatechangenews.com/2025/02/06/un-extends-deadline-for-countries-to-submit-2035-climate-plans/
