Under Paris, countries would submit updates to their NDCs every five years, but Glasgow calls for updates by the end of 2022, just one year away. One of the steps this Pact takes over previous agreements is accelerating the timeline for national climate plan updates.
But right now, current policies put us at 2.7˚C. If all govts met their 2030 targets, we would have 2.4˚C of warming in 2100. We are currently at 1.1✬ above pre-industrial levels, and current pledges will result in us reaching 2.4✬ above pre-industrial levels – if we hit those pledges, which not all countries are on the trajectory to do.ĬAT global update: Glasgow has a credibility gap between talk and action. The oft-repeated goal of these negotiations was to “keep 1.5 alive,” and many say that the negotiations did so, but only just – the goal of <1.5✬ warming is still on life support, and needs help. New Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs, country climate pledges) submitted this year bring us closer to the goal of <1.5✬ warming, but are still not enough.
The new Pact moves forward timelines for updating national goals for carbon reduction and for the first time explicitly calls for a “phase-down” of coal globally.īut experts warn that the new commitments are not strong enough and will still need to be updated, as soon and as strongly as possible, if we want to keep warming below 1.5✬ above pre-industrial levels.
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COP26, the 26th meeting of the United Nations Framework on Climate Change’s Conference of Parties has ended with the successful negotiation of the Glasgow Climate Pact, which updates the landmark Paris Agreement with new climate goals ( full text here).