Here is something to further increase the pressure on international negotiators who meet from October 31 for the Climate Conference in Glasgow, Scotland.
In a report published this Wednesday by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), the “
Production Gap report
”, a team of international researchers notes that countries are far from being on the path to the climate objectives set by the Paris agreement of 2015. Governments plan to produce in 2030 a quantity 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 (red curve in the infographic below).
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Fossils of production must begin to decrease immediately and dramatically to achieve this goal
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recalls Ploy Achakulwisut, researcher at the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), and lead author of the report.
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