Current climate pledges not enough: UN

[IDemo]

Source: Echo Net Daily

Pollution is still rising despite world pledges to cut carbon emissions and more action is needed to rein in climate change, a UN report says.

The Emissions Gap report is the fifth yearly analysis that examines how countries are doing and lays out the path toward keeping the average rise in global temperature below two degrees Celsius over the next century.

The report by the UN Environment Program and the World Resources Institute said the planet must aim for global carbon neutrality by mid-to-late century to head off the worst effects of climate change.

‘There is still a significant gap between where emissions are going and where they need to be by 2030 if we’re going to limit warming to less than 2 degrees [Celsius],’ said Taryn Fransen, project director of the Open Climate Network at the World Resources Institute.

Read more: http://www.echo.net.au/2014/11/current-climate-pledges-enough-un/

[mac56]

1. Two degrees is still a huge leap.

But they have to start somewhere.

[glinda]

2. Am sure they also underestimated that also. We should be scrambling.