Headline, December 19 2024/ ''' CRUCIAL CLIMATE CRUISES '''

''' CRUCIAL CLIMATE

 CRUISES '''

THE REPORT BY THE CLIMATE ACTION TRACKER - a research group, estimates that the climate and energy policies currently pursued by governments around the world would cause global temperatures -

To rise roughly 2.7 degrees Celsius, or 4.9 degrees Fahrenheit, above preindustrial levels by 2100.

Countries have made scant progress in curbing their greenhouse gas emissions over the past year, keeping the planet on track for dangerous levels of warming this century, according to this new report.

That estimate of future warming has barely budged for three years now, the group said.

'' We are clearly failing to bend the curve,'' said Sofia Gonzales-Zuniga, a climate policy specialist at Climate Analytics, a science and policy organization, and a lead author of the report.

'' As the world edges closer to these dangerous climate thresholds, the need for immediate, stronger action to reverse this trend becomes ever more urgent. ''

The study was issued this past week during the United Nations climate summit in Baku Azerbaijan, where diplomats and world leaders have gathered to discuss how to raise trillions of dollars to cope with rising global temperatures.

Under the 2015 Paris Agreement, world leaders had pledged to hold total global warming to ''well below'' 2 degrees Celsius, and preferably closer to 1.5 degrees Celsius, to limit the risks from climate catastrophes.

Scientists have said that every fraction of a degree of warming brings greater risks from deadly heat waves, wildfires, drought, storms and specific extinction.

That more stringent target looks increasingly out of reach. Every year, Climate Action Tracker scrutinizes all the climate policies that countries have enacted worldwide, such as regulations to curb pollution from power plants or to improve the efficiency of cars.

They then estimate the effect of these policies on future greenhouse gas emissions and calculate how much of a temperature increase the world can expect.

Over the past three years, the United States has enacted the Inflation Reduction Act, which is expected to pour hundreds of billions of dollars into low-carbon technologies like wind, solar and nuclear energy, and carbon capture technology.

China has been selling record numbers of electric vehicles. The European Union has ramped up its targets for renewable energy and heat pumps.

Yet the world is still heading for significant warming because global energy demand is growing faster than clean energy is expanding, which means fossil fuel use has been rising to fill the gap.

'' Rising emissions while renewables boom is not a paradox, '' said Niklas Hohne, a scientist with  NewClimate Institute, which partners with Climate Action Tracker.

''In recent years fossil fuels won the race against renewables, leading to increasing emissions. As part of global climate talks, many countries have pledged to zero out their emissions by around midcentury.

If governments followed through, warming might be limited to roughly 2.1 degrees Celsius, the report said.

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