It’s a global catastrophe but nearly every nation in Earth missed the UN deadline for new climate targets

By Jo Nova

Earth faces a mass extinction, 99.9% of ScientistsTM agree, yet 90% of all nations plumb forgot to update their targets. (90%!)

According to the UN, these “are the most important policy documents of this century”. Almost all nations miss UN deadline for new climate targets

AFP

Only one country on Earth has a reasonable target to keep planetary temperatures to 1.5C

Nearly all nations missed a UN deadline Monday to submit new targets for slashing carbon emissions, including major economies under pressure to show leadership following the US retreat on climate change.

Just 10 of nearly 200 countries required under the Paris Agreement to deliver fresh climate plans by February 10 did so on time, according to a UN database tracking the submissions.

Only one nation has a plan to keep temperatures to 1.5 degrees above whatever they were 150 years ago, when the weather was supposedly perfect. (That’s the UK — commiserations to the Brits).

Almost all the biggies missed — China, India and even the EU missed the deadline. The US was one of the only big nations that got in early, ….but then Trump axed the Paris deal.

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February 11, 2025 at 12:04PM

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