The Paper's reporter Nan Boyi
On September 17, local time, UN Secretary-General António Guterres warned that due to the ineffective reduction of emissions in countries around the world, the world is moving towards a "catastrophic" road of 2.7 °C warming by the end of this century.
A United Nations report on 191 countries' emissions reduction commitments found that these countries are unable to meet the target set out in the 2015 Paris Agreement, which limits anthropogenic global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius higher than in pre-industrial times, Al Jazeera reported on September 17. According to countries' current commitments, global emissions in 2030 will be 16 percent higher than in 2010, a far cry from the experts' previous target of cutting emissions by 45 percent by 2030. And without further commitments, global temperatures could be 2.7°C higher by the end of the century than they were in pre-industrial times.
In November, global leaders will gather in Glasgow, UK, for cop26 of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP26). Patricia Espinosa, executive secretary of the secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, said she had received "very positive signals" in talks with countries that would agree on new commitments to reduce emissions before the conference. However, she did not say which countries.
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