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UN: Global climate plans falling short of the goal

Governments are falling far short of the promises they made to cut plant-warming pollution under the Paris climate agreement 10 years ago, the United Nations said in a report Tuesday. Only a minority ... Read More

World Falling Short on Methane Pledge, U.N. Report Finds

Several agency programs are trying to track and reduce methane emissions around the world. To meet global targets, use of them needs to speed up. By Sachi Kitajima Mulkey The world is not moving ... Read More

Why the Global Methane Pledge Is Falling Short

The Global Methane Pledge was launched at the COP26 climate summit to accelerate the reduction of carbon emissions worldwide. However, since joining the pledge, many countries have failed to cut their ... Read More

Countries' new climate plans to start cutting global emissions, U.N. says

UN sees global emissions falling 10% by 2035 Reflects new climate pledges, including from China First time UN climate body forecasts emissions decline U.S. emissions trajectory uncertain under Trump ... Read More

Climate-fighting efforts show slight gain but still fall far short, UN says

All nations of the world had homework this year: submit new-and-improved plans to fight climate change. But the plans they handed in “have barely moved the needle” on reducing Earth’s future warming, ... Read More

World will overshoot 1.5 degree climate goal, UN says

The world has failed to meet its main climate change target of limiting the rise in global temperatures to 1.5 degrees Celsius, and will likely breach this threshold in the next decade, the United ... Read More

China, world’s top carbon polluter, is likely to overdeliver on its climate goals. Will that be enough?

BEIJING (AP) — China is likely to overdeliver on the modest goals the government has set to cut carbon pollution, experts say. The question is whether that will be enough to help the world curb ... Read More

Climate Change Weekly # 562—Global Politics Issue: Climate Goals Fade

The title of this essay might be a bit misleading at first. Countries keep setting ever-more stringent emission reduction and higher financing targets at every UN Conference of the Parties (COP) to ... Read More

World falling far behind deforestation goals with farms and fires driving loss, report says

World lost 8.1 million hectares of forest in 2024, report says Fires, agriculture major drivers of deforestation, per Forest Declaration Assessment Brazil's TFFF fund aims to raise $125 billion for ... Read More

UN: Global climate plans falling short of the goal

Greenhouse gas pollution in 2035 would be only 6 percent lower than levels that countries have previously promised to hit by 2030, according to a U.N. report based on skimpy submissions from ... Read More