Most countries missed the UN Monday deadline to submit carbon emission targets.

Almost 200 countries are committed to providing targets to 2035 under the Paris Agreement, but according to the NDC Registry only ten made it: Andorra, Brazil, Britain, Ecuador, New Zealand, Saint Lucia, Switzerland, The United Arab Emirates, Uruguay and the US (who are about to leave the Paris Agreement, rendering it something of a Pyrrhic victory).

Those not submitting yet include China, the EU and India. Indeed, the majority of G20 economies have yet to register. There are no penalties for submitting late, or indeed at all, but the EU is committed to doing so, having been delayed by internal elections (and one might point out it is not technically a ‘country’ anyway) and China is fully expected to do so later this year before UN COP30 in November.

But it is the decision of the US to pull out of the Paris Agreement that leaves the UN pondering whether this is the first ripple from that decision, and worrying over the longer term results.

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