The Paris Agreement, which aims to keep the increase in Earth’s temperature to 1. 5 degrees Celsius, is still “extremely distant” from being achieved, the United Nations Climate Authority cautioned on Wednesday.
We are extremely far from the level of decreasing emissions, and the speed needed to put us on the road to a world whose temperature does not rise by more than 1. 5 degrees Celsius, the head of the United Nations Climate Program, Simon Steel, warned, according to the French News Agency.
Steel’s comments came on the occasion of the publication of a summary of the obligations of the signed countries on the Paris Agreement, less than two weeks before the opening of the COP27 World Climate Conference scheduled to be held soon in Egypt.
The UN organisation claims that the 193 parties’ combined responsibilities “may send the world on the path of high temperature at a rate of 2. 5 °C by the end of the century.”
The Paris Agreement in 2015 set the goal of containing global warming under “much less than two degrees Celsius above pre -industrial levels”, when humanity began to exploit fossil fuels responsible for gas emissions that cause warming, and if possible at 1. one degree.
The parties to the agreement agreed to reassess their duties about reducing emissions, also known as “the defined contribution at the national level,” yearly rather than every five years during the last COB 26 climate conference in 2021, which was held in “Glasgow.”
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But 24 countries sent their new or modified national contributions by the deadline on September 23, at the appropriate time to consider them at the COB 27 conference scheduled from November 6 to 18 in Sharm El Sheikh. It is a “disappointing” number, Steel said in a press statement accompanying the new data.
The UN representative argues that “Governments must improve their plans now and put them into action over the next eight years in order to maintain the potential to reach this objective (1. 5 ° C).
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To meet this objective, according to UN experts, global emissions must decline by 45% from 2010 levels by 2030.
However, the most recent assessment of the nationally defined contributions indicates that the current commitments will instead result in an increase in emissions of 10.6% throughout this time.
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