In recent years, climate ambition has increased in many parts of the world. Many emerging and developed economies have either formally or informally revisited the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) they set out following the December 2015 Paris Agreement; by the end of 2020, 75 Parties to the Agreement had published a new or updated NDC. Yet estimates by the United Nations (UN) demonstrate that this is still insufficient. The February 2021 NDC Synthesis Report notes: “While the majority of nations represented increased their individual levels of ambition to reduce emissions, their combined impact puts them on a path to achieve a less than 1 percent reduction by 2030 compared to 2010 levels. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, by contrast, has indicated that emission reduction ranges to meet the 1.5°C temperature goal should be around 45 per cent lower.”
A Green New Deal must be global (Mihir Swarup Sharma, ORF)
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