World far off track to meet climate goals, says UN

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has said emissions must fall 60% by 2035, from 2019 levels, for a good chance of limiting global warming to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels - the more ambitious goal of the Paris climate deal.
53% : With just days to go before tense COP30 climate talks in Brazil, UN Climate Change provided an emissions calculation alongside its formal assessment of national 2035 pledges.
50% : The European Union's "statement of intent" to cut emissions between 66.25% and 72.5% by 2035 compared to 1990 levels was also taken into account.
49% : UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said last week that slow action from nations meant it was "inevitable" that efforts to limit temperature rise to 1.5C would fail in the short term, unleashing devastating impacts during a period of overshoot as countries worked to pull temperatures back down again by the end of the century. UN climate chief Simon Stiell said the estimated 10% emissions cut suggested that "humanity is now clearly bending the emissions curve downwards for the first time, although still not nearly fast enough".
49% : The UN has said that just 64 of the nearly 200 parties to the Paris Agreement had submitted their NDCs by its end of September cut-off date for the official annual report.
48% : As a result, Mr Stiell said the document "provides quite a limited picture", compelling the UN to attempt a more general calculation.
45% : The extra calculation incorporated elements from major polluters such as China and the European Union, which have not submitted full official updated pledges.
42% : The UN has estimated that nations' carbon-cutting pledges imply a far-from-sufficient 10% emissions cut by 2035, cautioning that it was unable to provide a robust global overview after most countries failed to submit their plans on time.

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