Amsterdam, Netherlands – A new report from the UNEP, Emission Gap report 2022, finds that countries\u2019 current climate plans are still not demonstrating the rapid downward trend science says is necessary this critical decade. Collectively, countries\u2019 efforts still remain woefully insufficient to limit global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius by the end of the century.<\/p>\n\n
Kaisa Kosonen, Senior Policy Advisor, Greenpeace Nordic said:<\/strong> It doesn\u2019t have to be this way! Earlier this year world\u2019s leading scientists underlined that halving global emissions by the end of this decade is not only urgently needed, but still perfectly doable. Solutions are abundant, allowing a faster transition away from fossil fuels. So where\u2019s the plan? Where\u2019s the action? With COP27, the 27th UN Climate Change Conference in less than two weeks, the new assessments by the UNEP and the IEA today are a timely reminder to world governments to revisit their climate plans and enhance cooperation, in order to bring real climate action to the climate talks, and close the gap between where emissions are currently headed and where science advises they should be by the end of this critical decade. <\/p>\n\n ENDS<\/p>\n\n Notes:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a disaster. Countries keep acting too little too late, and so these annual assessments sound like a broken record.<\/em><\/p>\n\n
Currently, countries are neither preparing for the green and fair transition they promised nor for the world we\u2019re currently heading. We\u2019re just speeding towards more climate chaos, human suffering and irreversible losses. We need an emergency response, right now.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n