AFP - Developed Economies Not Even Close To 2030 Pledges To Cut Emissions
MAJOR industrialized economies are far off track in helping the world meet the UN’s global warming target, a monitoring group said yesterday. Carbon pledges made by 31 economies — members of the Group of Seven and the European Union — mean that by 2030 they will contribute only 30 percent of the effort they should, it said.
Further work is needed to ratchet up commitments, said a report of the Carbon Action Tracker initiative, issued on the sidelines of UN climate talks in Bonn.
Just over six months from now, the 195 countries of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change are meant to seal a pact to ensure warming is limited to 2 degrees Celsius over pre-industrial times.
Laborious and complex, the talks have been dogged by finger-pointing between rich and poor countries over their share of curbing carbon emissions. “Ambitious greenhouse-gas reduction proposals by the G7+EU states are central for a successful outcome in Paris,” said the CAT analysis. “These countries are responsible in aggregate for around 30 percent of global greenhouse gases emissions and 40 percent of global GDP.”
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