Fossil fuels: global forecasts far too high

Ten days before the Glasgow Climate Conference, COP26, the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), publishes a report which finds that countries are far from being on the path to the climate targets set by the Paris agreement of 2015. Governments plan to produce in 2030 an amount of fossil fuels more than twice that compatible with the objective of limiting global warming to + 1.5 ° C compared to the pre-industrial era.

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"Fossil production must begin to decrease immediately and drastically to achieve this goal,"

recalls Ploy Achakulwisut, researcher at the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), and lead author of the report.

However, this is very far from being the case.

Only the consumption of coal should fall, but in a very insufficient way, bearing in mind that it is the energy emitting the most greenhouse gases.

As for gas and oil, their consumption will continue to increase.

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