Source: Karl Mathiesen, POLITICO, 2/26/21


A recent dump of new national climate plans will do almost nothing to cut emissions this decade, a report from the U.N. said Friday. Just 75 governments out of the 191 that signed the Paris Agreement met a U.N. deadline to submit their climate plans by the end of last year. The U.N. climate body has totted up the cumulative effect of those new pledges — which cover around a third of global emissions — and found those countries would emit 2.8 percent less in 2030 than under the old plans. U.N. climate chief Patricia Espinosa said the efforts were “simply not good enough.”

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