According to UNEP Report 2024: No Progress in Limiting Global Temperature Rise to 1.5°C Above Pre-Industrial Levels".
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According to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) report titled "Emissions Cap Report 2024: No More Hot Air...... Please!", the world made no progress in limiting the temperature rise to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels in 2023 compared to the previous year.
- The report highlights that the gap in implementing policies to meet the targets set in 2030 Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) remains unchanged from the previous year’s assessment by UNEP.
- The report indicates that the world is on track to experience 3.1°C (5.6°F) of warming since pre-industrial times, more than double the goal set in the 2015 Paris Agreement to limit global temperature rise to 1.5°C (2.7°F) above pre-industrial levels.
Main Points:- (i) The report warns that if current NDCs are implemented without more ambitious commitments, which are due by February 2025, global temperatures could rise by up to 2.6°C by the end of 2100.
(ii) The report also notes that global Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions increased by 1.3% in 2023, reaching 57.1 Gigatonnes of Carbon Dioxide equivalent (GtCO2e) compared to 2022.
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Executive Director : Inger Anderson
Headquarters : Nairobi, Kenya
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