World 'nowhere near' hitting climate targets, U.N. warns

The world is "nowhere near" hitting its targets to cut greenhouse gas emissions, putting it on track to soar past the limit for global warming that countries committed to in the landmark 2015 Paris Agreement, the United Nations has warned.

That means the planet is on course for a future marked by unprecedented heat waves, destructive storms and drought, as well as the extinction of animal and plant species.

The U.N. said in a news release Wednesday that while countries are “bending the curve of global greenhouse gas emissions downward,” these efforts “remain insufficient to limit global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius by the end of the century.”

Emissions were expected to increase 10.6% by 2030 from 2010 levels, the report said, representing a slight decrease from estimates last year. But the impact of countries' pledges to ramp up their climate fight is falling short, scientists behind the report warned.

SOURCE: nbcnews.com/news/world/world-emissions-paris-climate-targets-un-report-rcna54044

It's over

why can’t leaders of countries and corporations just get it f***ing together and stop fighting and focus that energy to savoring our planet man

Let’s get this over with

not profitable

gg

Because they're human.

No s***

Cop out answer tbh

its the biggest gaslight in history

we gonna be watching our final moments here holding each other like “ but we were human” as a response to just killing ourselves off 💀

Not if I intervene

Guarantee the blame will try and be shifted towards the working people in some way as well

They didn’t save enough plastic straws or didn’t take public transportation enough

please ktt user @FaZeBaen, save us!

what are they gonna do anyways

people are still gonna use energy anyways in some form.

so sad because companies can still make profits just less and still save the world

it’s moreso the emissions from production means that really do damage (although general energy usage from the public obviously contributes as well)

BECAUSE THEY DONT F***ING CARE ABOUT ANY OF THAT S***!!!!! THEY ONLY CARE ABOUT THEIR OWN END!!!!!!!! THEY GAVE A F*** ABOUT THE PLANET THEYLL BE FINE LONG AS THEYRE HOARDING THEIR WEALTH!!!!!

line must go up

its gonna be EVERYWHERE in corporate marketing from here on: how dare you the consumer not CARE about your own planet??? you aint recycling and buying our ethically sourced s***???? youre the problem see

outta here

It was never meant to be achieved. Not like they were ever going to tell you that, though.

its just hilarious how inevitable this is. how its gonna happen and how other consumers will actually drink that cool aid talking about 'if youre not DOING YOUR PART then youre the problem' while factories and corporations dump MILLIONS OF TONS of waste EVERY SINGLE YEAR all over the world!

whats crazy is this already kinda happened with the whole recycle craze of the 2000s

this'll sound super dumb so please dont quote me but at least those jan 6 motherfuckers actually got together and went to the capitol. at least they had f***ing something even if its just their f***ed up ideas of reality. this s*** will kill everybody and at most ppl will be silent raging getting themslelves stressed over how little control they have over their own demise. or we'll get some absolutely desperate non-activism ie soup on paintings

Embrace hedonism and go out with a bang