{"id":63933,"date":"2022-10-29T06:04:56","date_gmt":"2022-10-29T11:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=63933"},"modified":"2022-10-29T06:04:56","modified_gmt":"2022-10-29T11:04:56","slug":"climate-crisis-un-finds-no-credible-pathway-to-1-5c-in-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=63933","title":{"rendered":"Climate crisis: UN finds \u2018no credible pathway to 1.5C in place\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Climate crisis: UN finds \u2018no credible pathway to 1.5C in place\u2019<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Failure to cut carbon emissions means \u2018rapid transformation of societies\u2019 is only option to limit impacts, report says<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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A firefighter sets fire to land in an attempt to prevent wildfires from spreading in Gironde, south-west France. A rise in global temperature of 1C to date has already contributed to climate disasters.<\/span> Photograph: Thibaud Moritz\/AFP\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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There is \u201cno credible pathway to 1.5C in place\u201d, the UN\u2019s environment agency has said, and the failure to reduce carbon emissions means the only way to limit the worst impacts of the climate crisis is a \u201crapid transformation of societies\u201d.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0UN environment report<\/a>\u00a0analysed the gap between the CO2<\/sub>\u00a0cuts pledged by countries and the cuts needed to limit any rise in global temperature to 1.5C, the internationally agreed target. Progress has been \u201cwoefully inadequate\u201d it concluded.<\/p>\n

Current pledges for action by 2030, if delivered in full, would mean a rise in global heating of about 2.5C and catastrophic extreme weather around the world. A rise of\u00a01C to date has caused climate disasters<\/a>\u00a0in locations from Pakistan to Puerto Rico.<\/p>\n

If the long-term pledges by countries to hit net zero emissions by 2050 were delivered, global temperature would rise by 1.8C. But the glacial pace of action means meeting even this temperature limit was not credible, the UN report said.<\/p>\n

Countries agreed at the Cop26 climate summit a year ago to increase their pledges. But with Cop27 looming, only a couple of dozen have done so and the new pledges would shave just 1% off emissions in 2030. Global emissions must fall by almost 50% by that date to keep the 1.5C target alive.<\/p>\n

Inger Andersen, the executive director of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), said: \u201cThis report tells us in cold scientific terms what nature has been telling us all year through deadly floods, storms and raging fires: we have to stop filling our atmosphere with greenhouse gases, and stop doing it fast.<\/p>\n

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Climate crisis: UN finds \u2018no credible pathway to 1.5C in place\u2019 Failure to cut carbon emissions means \u2018rapid transformation of societies\u2019 is only option to limit impacts, report says A firefighter sets fire to land in an attempt to prevent wildfires from spreading in Gironde, south-west France. A rise in global temperature of 1C to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[113,141,1004,16591,369,6917,822,826],"class_list":["post-63933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-carbon-emissions","tag-climate-change","tag-co2","tag-damian-carrington","tag-global-warming","tag-the-guardian","tag-un","tag-united-nations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63933"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63934,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63933\/revisions\/63934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}