Most nations miss deadline for plans to fight climate change. UN says take your time to do it right

Almost 200 countries have faced a final date on Monday to present what the United Nations climate head is calling. Heat imprisonment emissions Gases.

Most of them will not make the deadline. The United Nations says this is good as long as they work on it.

yet Only dozens From 195 countries occurred 2015 Climate Agreement Paris They presented their national plans to reduce emissions by 2035. These countries represent only 16.2 % of the world’s carbon dioxide emissions-a large large gas besieged The plan presented by the administration of President Joe Biden.

Regardless of the United States, the only major gates that offer the goals of 2035 are Brazil, the United Kingdom and the United Arab Emirates. The Marshall Islands, Singapore, Ecuador, Saint Lucia, Andora, New Zealand, Switzerland and Uruguay raised their plans, but they all produce less than 0.2 % of the world’s carbon dioxide.

United Nations Climate Minister Simon Stel said that more than 170 countries have told his office that they were working on their national plans, so he is not worried. He emphasized quality on the timing.

“Spending more time to ensure that these plans are logical,” Steel said last week in the Political speech in Brazil. “These plans will be the most comprehensive ever.”

Champa Patel, director of the non -profit climate group policy, was not forgiving.

“It is worrying that the two countries fail to meet the urgency at the present time,” Patel said. “The world cannot withstand a failure.”

These plans – formally The specific contributions are called national or NDCS It is the main mechanism for the international teacher agreement. Every five years, countries are supposed to reach new and stronger plans for a period of five years that penetrate their voluntary plans to reduce or reduce greenhouse gas emissions from burning coal, oil and natural gas.

The latest versions are supposed to be compatible with the Paris Agreement The goal of limiting the long -term warming to 1.5 ° C (2.7 ° F) Above the pre -industry times. the The world now At 1.3 ° C (2.3 degrees Fahrenheit) since the late nineteenth century and at a pace for heating 1.8 ° C (3.2 ° F), according to the United Nations

Scientists say the warm atmosphere leads more extreme air events, including floods, droughts, hurricanes, thermal waves, and forest fires that kill people and cause billions of dollars every year.

The new targets of all greenhouse gases are also supposed to be carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, hydrovlorocarbon carbloblocarbon, bororox -owned carbonate, and sulfur thickness. The entire economy should be covered and not only the energy sector, according to To the 2023 agreement.

Track climate work – A group of scientists and other experts who analyze climate plans in countries for local emissions have found that four of the six NDC goals that they have seen so far have almost “sufficient” to bear the warming to degrees. Not enough, as the group said it was more compatible with 3 degrees of warming.

Britain The plan aims to reduce emissions by at least 81 % By 2035, when compared to emissions in 1990, indicating the efforts made to gradually get rid of new internal combustion cars – which only use gasoline and diesel – by 2030. Brazil in its plan It gave a set of discounts in emissions from 59 % to 67 % by 2035 compared to 2005 emissions, talking strongly about focusing on climate justice, with the efforts of repeated and repeatedly to combat forest removal.

Most of these countries were classified insufficient when I compared what they are planning to do what they are doing already and what is their “fair share” that thinks about their resources and history. This included the United States, where Trump’s first measure was last month to withdraw from the Paris Agreement.

“We already know that whatever the (other) countries that have been presented, they are not enough,” Nichlas Hene, one of the founders of climate action, told Associated Press on Monday. “They all need to do more.”

The deadline – which was determined in the Paris Agreement nine months before the upcoming international climate negotiations, this year in Belim, Brazil – is 11:59 pm in Germany, where the United Nations Climate Office is.

But Steel said that the real deadline is in September. This is when the United Nations will prepare all plans and know the amount of emissions that will be cut and the amount of warming in the future if the countries do what they promised.

This is big if.

Hohen said that the European Union and China should take place by mid -year, and India will only present their goal after the other major countries emitted.

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