Global warming on course for 2.9°C, UN report warns

Action continues to fall far short of pledges, even as temperature and greenhouse gas records are repeatedly broken. By Catherine Early, China Dialogue Countries must make far greater efforts to implement their climate strategies this decade to stand a chance of keeping global temperature rise within 1.5°C of the pre-industrial average. Continued delays will only increase the world’s reliance on uncertain carbon dioxide removal technologies (CDR), according to the UN Environment Programme (UNEP). In its latest annual assessment of progress on global climate action, the Emissions Gap Report 2013, UNEP pointed to progress since the Paris Agreement. When it was adopted in 2015, greenhouse gas