Global temperatures could rise by 3-5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels this century if nothing is done to stop rising heat-trapping emissions - World Meteorological Organization Secretary-General Petteri Taalas
Smoke billows during a fire in an area of the Amazon rainforest near Porto Velho, Rondonia State, Brazil, September 10, 2019.
“What we are looking at is really that emissions need to go down by 55 percent by 2030,” said John Christensen, lead author and director of the UNEP-Danish Technology Institute Partnership. He warned that CO2 levels have begun to rise again after several years of stabilisation. As part of the Paris Agreement, countries agreed to review their efforts for cutting greenhouse gases by 2020.
Last week, UNEP published a separate report, which found that countries are planning to extract more than twice the amount of fossil fuels from the ground than can be burned in 2030 if the 1.5-degree Celsius target is to be met. Christensen, the lead author, said the main cause of a recent increase in carbon dioxide emissions was economic growth in developing countries.
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