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"The world can successfully keep global warming below 2C if every country meets
every commitment made through June 2022 to slash greenhouse gas emissions,
according to a new study.
That includes both medium- and long-term commitments. If countries were to meet
only their 2030 goals, the report finds it wouldn’t be enough to keep warming
at 1.5C or even “well below” 2C — limits baked into the Paris Agreement in
2015. But if national governments hit climate commitments for 2030, 2050 and
2070, four climate models concluded that limiting warming to 1.7C to 1.8C is
likely, per an analysis published Thursday in the journal
Nature Climate
Change.
"The main takeaway of this research is definitely positive," said Dirk-Jan van
de Ven, the lead author on the report and a postdoctoral researcher at the
Basque Center for Climate Change in Spain. "If all governments indeed follow
the promises actually made, then we are actually keeping temperatures well
below 2 degrees."
Using a collection of climate models, van de Ven and 15 colleagues worldwide
set out to assess the impact of country-level climate commitments made leading
up to and after the 2021 United Nations climate summit in Glasgow, COP26. Those
updated pledges, they found, moved the needle on climate action in a meaningful
way: Just a few years ago, the best-case scenario would have put the world on
track to breach 2C.
“The results clearly show that climate action and ambitions have notably
improved since 2020,” the study’s authors wrote."
Via
Future Crunch:
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*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
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https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
