Goal 13 Climate Action

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UN report: Climate-fighting efforts show slight gain but still fall far short

But the plans they handed in “have barely moved the needle” on reducing Earth’s future warming, a new United Nations report finds.

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Climate-fighting efforts have ‘barely moved the needle,’ UN report finds

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UN warns climate pledges fall short of goals

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The World Is Failing Its 2025 Paris Climate Target. Now What?

“Between 1.5 and 2 degrees of warming, critical impacts are expected to accelerate rapidly,” says Joeri Rogelj, professor of climate science and policy at Imperial College London.

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UN report: Global climate ambitions 'off target'

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Climate-fighting efforts show slight gain but still fall far short, UN says

World will overshoot 1.5 degree climate goal, UN says

The world has failed to meet its main climate change target and will likely breach this threshold in the next decade, the United Nations’ Environment Programme said Tuesday.

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EU in last-minute talks to set new climate goal for COP30

EU climate ministers will make a last-ditch attempt to pass a new climate change target on Tuesday, in an effort to avoid going to the U.N. COP30 summit in Brazil empty-handed.

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The ‘implementation COP’: why the Belém summit must ratchet up climate action

Delegates to the climate conference in Brazil must accelerate commitments to rapidly developing a low-carbon economy. There is no Planet B.

U.N. Sees Slight Progress on Climate Action, Partly Offset by the U.S.

The annual U.N. report card finds that, overall, countries are still far off-track from their stated goals to limit global warming.

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The EconomistOpinion

The climate action that matters is in the global south, argues an architect of the Paris agreement

Against long odds, in the Paris agreement—the negotiations for which I led as executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change—they committed to limit global heating, protect the most vulnerable and unleash an unprecedented economic transformation.

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Taipei TimesOpinion

Taiwan-India mutual climate aid

Beyond headlines of carbon markets and energy transitions, climate action fundamentally pertains to the Earth we inhabit. Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 13 calls for swift climate change action. SDG 15 — Life on Land — calls for nations to protect,

CNN

China commits to cutting up to 10% of its climate pollution, short of the goal other countries sought of it

In a consequential move for the global climate, China committed Wednesday to reduce its planet-warming pollution by 7% to 10% from peak levels over the next decade. China’s new economy-wide goal takes on outsized importance given the country is both the ...

The Economist

For the first time, climate models show the 1.5°C goal is dead

Three years on, the data confirm that the window has closed. The latest Emissions Gap Report of the UN Environment Programme ( UNEP) finds that the relentless rise in emissions since 2020 rules out even theoretical routes to the 1.5°C goal, which the agency expects to be exceeded by at least 0.1°C within the next decade.

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EU considers weakening 2040 climate goal over forest CO2 absorption, draft shows

The European Union is considering a brake clause to weaken its 2040 climate target in the future, if it becomes clear countries' forests are not absorbing enough CO2 emissions to meet the goal, a draft EU compromise proposal showed.