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"Australia has formally missed the deadline to submit its longer term emission
reduction targets for the next phase of the UN-backed Paris climate treaty.
But it’s not the only one: By late last week just six countries had filed their
2035 emission reduction targets ahead of the February 10 deadline – and one of
those came from the US, which under the new Trump/Musk administration has
already withdrawn from the treaty.
According to an analysis by Climate Action Tracker, only one country out of the
five still in the mix – the UK – came close to delivering on the agreed 1.5°C
target.
“The UAE, Brazil, the US, Switzerland and New Zealand have all come up with
2035 targets that fall way short of what is needed to keep global warming to
1.5°C,” it noted in a report issued last Friday.
Bill Hare, the head of Climate Analytics, one of the partners of Climate Action
Tracker, says the public deserve better, particularly in light of the latest
assessment that the world has already breached 1.55°C in 2024, and the growing
intensity of natural disasters and weather events that have had an impact
across the globe.
“The public is entitled to expect a strong reaction from their governments to
the fact that global warming has now reached 1.5° for an entire year, but we
have seen virtually nothing of real substance,” Hare says.
“So far, governments haven’t lived up to their promises made ten years ago — to
bring the world closer to a pathway consistent with limiting warming to 1.5°C
at the speed needed. The deadline they themselves set ten years ago needs to
mark the beginning of a year that sees a marked turning point in government
action.”"
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
