As climate impacts intensify globally, the UNEP Emissions Gap Report 2024: No more hot air … please! finds that nations must deliver dramatically stronger ambition and action in the next round of NDCs or the Paris Agreement’s 1.5C goal will be gone within a few years.

However, the report notes that it remains “technically possible” to get on a 1.5C pathway, with solar, wind and forests allowing for sweeping and fast emissions cuts.

The report notes that cuts of 42 per cent are needed by 2030 and 57 per cent by 2035 to get on track for 1.5C. A failure to increase ambition in these new NDCs and start delivering immediately would put the world on course for a temperature increase of 2.6-3.1C over the course of this century.

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