{"id":60345,"date":"2021-11-08T07:47:11","date_gmt":"2021-11-08T12:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=60345"},"modified":"2021-11-08T07:47:11","modified_gmt":"2021-11-08T12:47:11","slug":"if-all-2030-climate-targets-are-met-the-planet-will-heat-by-2-7-c-this-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=60345","title":{"rendered":"If all 2030 climate targets are met, the planet will heat by 2.7 C this century"},"content":{"rendered":"

If all 2030 climate targets are met, the planet will heat by 2.7 C this century<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Corals will not likely survive more than 2\u2103 global warming. Credit: Shutterstock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

If nations make good on their latest promises to reduce emissions by 2030, the planet will warm by at least 2.7\u2103 this century, a report by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has found. This overshoots the crucial internationally agreed temperature rise of 1.5\u2103.<\/p>\n

Released today, just days before the international climate change summit in Glasgow begins, UNEP’s Emissions Gap Report works out the difference between where\u00a0greenhouse emissions<\/a>\u00a0are projected to be in 2030 and where they should be to avoid the worst climate change impacts.<\/p>\n

It comes as the Morrison government yesterday officially committed to a target of net-zero emissions by 2050. The government made no changes to its paltry 2030 target to reduce emissions by between 26% and 28% below 2005 levels, but announced that Australia is set to beat this, and reduce emissions by up to 35%.<\/p>\n

The UNEP report was conducted before Australia’s new 2050 target was announced, but even with this new pledge, global pledges will undoubtedly still be short of what’s needed.<\/p>\n

The report found global targets for net-zero emissions by mid-century could cut another 0.5\u2103 off\u00a0global warming<\/a>. While this is a big improvement, it will still see temperatures rise to 2.2\u2103 this century. If we don’t close the global emissions gap, what will Australia, and the rest of world, be forced to endure?<\/p>\n

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