The planet in BIG trouble, Climate goals will NOT be reached says NEW report

By Dana Malcolm

Staff Writer

October 28, 2022 – As COP 27 approaches the United Nations says with this low level of dedication we will miss climate goals by far in a new report.  While humanity needs to stop global temperature rise at 1.5°C for survival, the report indicates the combined climate pledges of the Paris Agreement could put the world on track for about 2.5°C of warming instead. Its a disappointing but not surprising turn of events for developing nations, especially small island states.

During COP 26 the United Nations Climate Change Conference last year, every UN nation pledged to increase their dedication to stop climate change in its tracks but those promises remain unfulfilled.

Simon Stiell, Executive Secretary of UN Climate Change, revealed that despite the promised dedication at Cop 26 last year and (and the Caribbean’s desperate pleas to larger contributors to climate change) only 24 of the UN’s countries have submitted new or updated climate plans, Cop 27 is less than a month away.

Many large nations including the United States and the United Kingdom continue to miss their climate change goals, Earlier this year the UK Climate Change Committee slammed the government’s plan for net zero emissions saying there was ‘scant evidence of delivery against headline goals so far.’

The Rhodium Group, a US research agency, said, “Without new policy, the US will fall significantly short of its 2030 climate target”

While carbon emissions are not projected to increase after 2030 based on commitments made by countries, the report says they are still not demonstrating the rapid decrease scientists say is necessary to essentially save the world. In fact Stiell, says: “The science is clear and so are our climate goals under the Paris Agreement. We are still nowhere near the scale and pace of emission reductions required to put us on track toward a 1.5 degrees Celsius world. To keep this goal alive, national governments need to strengthen their climate action plans now and implement them in the next eight years.”

If the world collectively fails its developing countries that will suffer the brunt of climate changes ill effects. Thousands of lives have been lost in Pakistan and Nigeria due to extreme flooding, several nations in sub-Saharan Africa are suffering through one of the worst droughts.

The UN is also warning that the effects of climate change make economic conditions in developing countries worse.

“Climate shocks are heightening the risk of economic instability in indebted developing countries, seemingly under-appreciated by the G20 major economies and other international financial bodies.”

This is the backdrop against which the UN will meet November 6-18, 2022 at COP 27, set in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt.