Southeast Asia Information Port (www.dnyxxg.com) – A report titled "Emissions Gap Report," released by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) on the 4th, shows that achieving the global warming targets set forth in the Paris Agreement remains a serious challenge. The report calls on countries to increase their emission reduction efforts by utilizing existing, mature technologies and other methods.
According to the UN website, this report, released on the eve of the 30th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP30), shows that in the 10 years since the signing of the Paris Agreement, global warming projections have significantly decreased from the initial range of 3 to 3.5 degrees Celsius. However, achieving the global warming target set forth in the agreement—limiting the temperature rise to well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, and striving for a stricter standard of 1.5 degrees Celsius—remains a challenge.
Under the Paris Agreement, countries submit "Nationally Determined Contributions" (NDCs) every five years, outlining their measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to global warming. The report points out that as of the end of September this year, less than one-third of the Parties had submitted new commitments.
The report indicates that if the currently submitted Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) are fully implemented, global temperature rise this century is projected to be between 2.3 and 2.5 degrees Celsius, slightly lower than last year's estimate of 2.6 to 2.8 degrees Celsius. Based on current national policies, the estimated warming is 2.8 degrees Celsius, also lower than last year's estimate of 3.1 degrees Celsius.
The report points out that, according to calculations, to limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius or 1.5 degrees Celsius, global annual emissions must be reduced by 35% and 55% respectively compared to 2019 levels by 2035.
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) urges countries to accelerate emissions reduction efforts and intensify actions in the face of an increasingly complex geopolitical environment and a shrinking time window to achieve global temperature control targets. It also points out that existing mature technologies provide feasible solutions to support deep emissions reduction goals.
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) points out that the rapid development of clean energy sources such as wind and solar power, the rapid popularization of low-cost renewable energy, and the effective control of methane emissions are all key pathways to solving the problem.
The UNEP emphasizes that avoiding a 0.1-degree Celsius increase in temperature can effectively mitigate the scale of damage, economic losses, and health impacts that are eroding all countries, with the poorest and most vulnerable groups bearing the heaviest burden. (End)
