The national emission targets that the world’s countries have set so far are not enough to reach the international climate targets. The world is heading towards 2.5 degrees of global warming and a reduction to 1.5 degrees seems to be a long way off, according to the UN. The report states, among other things: That global warming is likely to be around 2.5 degrees in 2100, even if the countries limit emissions as promised. With today’s climate promises, emissions will increase by 10.6 per cent by 2030. Only 24 countries submitted new climate targets. Small progress, but not enough Today’s report shows that the obligations that apply today will increase emissions by 10.6 per cent by 2030, compared to 2010 levels. This is an improvement on last year, when the countries were on track to increase emissions by 13.7 per cent by 2030. Nevertheless, this is not enough. The UN climate panel says that CO₂ emissions must fall by 45 percent from 2010 to 2030, if the targets in the Paris Agreement are to be reached. This year’s report shows that even if emissions no longer increase after 2030, they still do not show the rapid downward trend that science says is necessary this decade. Few countries updated their climate targets: – Disappointing – We are still nowhere near the extent and pace of reducing the emissions required to put us on track towards 1.5 degrees, says UN climate chief Simon Stiell. At the climate summit in Glasgow last year, the UN asked that efforts be stepped up. But only a small proportion of the world’s countries updated their emission targets. – Last year, all countries agreed to revise and strengthen their climate targets. The fact that only 24 new updated climate targets were submitted since COP26 is disappointing, he says. Stiell says that governments’ decisions and actions must reflect seriousness. Håkon Grindheim, senior adviser in the Church’s Emergency Relief Fund, is disappointed that Norway has not delivered an enhanced target, as the UN has requested. Photo: Milana Knezevic / news – They must reflect the threats we face and how little time we have left to avoid the devastating consequences of climate change, says Stiell. The Church’s emergency aid asks the Norwegian government to take this into account when they go to the climate summit which starts on 6 November. – Norway is by no means best in class here, when we have not even delivered an enhanced target, which the UN asked us to do. Norway must do that as soon as possible, says Håkon Grindheim, senior adviser at the Church’s Emergency Relief. Climate and Environment Minister Espen Barth Eide says Norway takes the call seriously. – Last year, the countries gave themselves homework to assess whether the targets they had submitted were in line with the Paris Agreement’s temperature targets. Norway takes this call seriously. We shall have completed our assessment of this before the climate summit in Sharm el-Sheik begins in two weeks, says Climate and Environment Minister Espen Barth Eide. Climate change threatens animal species in Kenya’s national parks. Africa’s national parks are increasingly threatened by drought and new infrastructure projects. Photo: LUIS TATO / AFP – Mocking future generations – Several of the countries that are struggling to deliver on climate cuts are those that produce goods for overconsumption here at home. It is time for Norway to take responsibility for the enormous emissions our consumption has, says Anja Bakken Riise, head of Framtiden i våre hans. – The report underlines what we already know, says Anja Bakken Riise in Framtiden i våre hädel. Photo: André Børke She says that the report emphasizes that Norway’s plans are not sufficient to combat climate change. – It is an insult to nature and future generations. We are a rich and oil-producing country and have an additional responsibility to pick up the pace for a green transition, says Riise. – The fact that the world is heading for 2.5 degrees of warming should keep Støre awake at night, says Une Bastholm of the Green Party. Financing will be an important topic at COP27 The UN report is among a number of reports published ahead of COP27, which is the 27th conference of the parties to the UN Convention on Climate Change. The summit will be held in Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt from 6 to 18 November. Over 100 heads of state and government are expected at the conference, together with climate and environment ministers, negotiators, activists and researchers from almost 200 countries. Financing of climate measures is becoming an important topic, and the demands from developing countries are massive. Among other things, they are about getting compensation for financial losses and damage that climate change has already caused them. And that the rich countries must fulfill their promise of 100 billion dollars a year to help poor countries adapt to climate change and cut their own emissions. This is what the world has promised to do against climate change. In the Paris Agreement, the countries of the world agreed to limit global warming to 2 degrees, and most preferably 1.5 degrees. At the climate summit in Glasgow in 2021, the countries determined that the goal to work towards is 1 5 degrees The world is already around 1 degree warmer than pre-industrial times. Even the most optimistic scenarios in the UN’s latest climate report imply that one will for a period exceed 1.5 degrees The sixth main report from the UN’s climate panel clearly states that the consequences of climate change will be greater, more unpredictable and more difficult to adapt to as the temperature in the world increases ladders
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