According to this year’s Emissions Gap Report, greenhouse gas emissions in 2023 were the highest ever recorded.
Even worse, the growth rate after 2022 was almost twice as high as it was in the ten years before the COVID pandemic.
This is in spite of decades of climate talks and a surge in solar and wind energy.
According to the estimate, the globe is headed for a potentially disastrous 3.1C increase in temperature this century compared to pre-industrial times due to the current trajectory of carbon emissions.
Emissions have peaked in many wealthy nations, such as the US, the UK, and the EU, but they are not declining very quickly.
196 nations signed the Paris Agreement, which committed them to keeping global warming far below 2C over pre-industrial levels and attempting to keep it from going above 1.5C.
Only one nation, Madagascar, has submitted a more aggressive carbon-cutting plan since last year, according to the UNEP’s review of current commitments.
Furthermore, very few have the ambition to genuinely slow down global warming.
