No more hot air please…!

Over the coming months, countries have the opportunity and obligation to prepare and submit new nationally determined contributions (NDCs) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), as specified in the Paris Agreement and as part of its five year ambition-raising cycle. If sufficient, the collective ambition of these NDCs could bridge the emissions gap in 2035 between emissions under the full implementation of countries’ mitigation pledges and levels consistent with
pathways that limit global warming to well below 2°C, while pursuing efforts to limit the increase to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels.
This fifteenth Emissions Gap Report has a special focus on what is required from the next NDCs to maintain the possibility of achieving this long-term temperature goal of the Paris Agreement. It underscores that ambition means nothing without action: unless global emissions in 2030 are
brought below levels implied by existing policies and current NDCs, it will become impossible to get on a pathway that limits global warming to 1.5°C with no or limited overshoot (>50 per cent chance), and it will strongly increase the challenge of limiting warming to 2°C (>66 per cent chance). The next NDCs must deliver a quantum leap in ambition, in tandem with accelerated mitigation action in this decade.

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