[ANALYSIS] Latest climate plans don't dent emissions: UN assessment
With the COP26 summit starting next week, the UN's climate team said the latest plans confirmed"worrying trends" of countries delaying sorely needed emissions cuts.PARIS - The latest round of national emissions-cutting plans submitted under the Paris Agreement will make no material dent in short-term carbon pollution levels and still put Earth on course to warm 2.7C, the UN said Monday.
Under the deal's"ratchet" mechanism, signatories are required to submit new climate plans -- known as Nationally Determined Contributions, or NDCs -- every five years. Yet, taken together, all Paris signatory plans would see emissions rise a"sizeable" 16 percent this decade, it said. "The message from this update is loud and clear: Parties must urgently redouble their climate efforts if they are to prevent global temperature increases beyond the Paris Agreement's goal of well below 2C -– ideally 1.5C -– by the end of the century," said UN climate chief Patricia Espinosa.The IPCC said in August that the 1.5-C limit could be breached by 2030 and would be surpassed by mid-century no matter what happens with emissions.
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