Launch of UNEP's Emissions Gap Report 2024

The Emissions Gap Report is UNEP's spotlight report launched annually in advance of the annual Climate negotiations. The EGR tracks the gap between where global emissions are heading with current country commitments and where they ought to be to limit warming to 1.5°C. Each edition explores ways to bridge the emissions gap.

[edgaragoa]

After 2 hours of presentation only 224 views... this should have at least 700million views so that the message resonates...

[katiasimeonova]

Inspiring presentation of a great report. Hope that COP29 delegates will take the findings on board to deliver results that we all want!

[marshallkirkpatrick]

Strong quote, written out in case anyone else wants to use it in text: "Some parts of the world are burning and some parts are drowning, and people everywhere are struggling to cope and in many cases to survive - particularly and always the poorest and most vulnerable. And it's against this backdrop of tragedy and rising climate anxiety that new climate pledges are due for submission by February of next year.

 

"This 2024 edition of UNEP's Emissions Gap Report tells us that nations must show a massive increase in the new Nationally Determined Contributions - these promises that we make to each other and to our world and planet every five years. And those NDCs have to be accompanied by rapid delivery, or the Paris Agreement goal of holding global warming to 1.5 degrees by 2100 will be dead within a few years, and the target of well below two degrees will take its place in the Intensive Care Unit."

-UN Environmental Program Executive Director Inger Anderson