The European Union does not expect to reach an agreement on its new U.N.-mandated climate target in time for a key deadline this month, and has instead drafted plans to submit a temporary goal, which could change later, an EU negotiating document seen by Reuters showed.
The move aims to avoid the EU being empty-handed at the U.N. general assembly next week
Sorry but is anybody actually going to meet them?
And were they not calculated under the presumption that everybody will meet them?And even if we all did, it still wouldn’t mean that climate change is “fixed” or some such.
Given with whats happening elsewhere in the world, how people “over there” think about climate change, i sometimes think we’ll just kill off humanity.
And thats okay. The world will keep spinning. A new apex species will arise. Hopefully they will spend their time and energy better then the current species. Maybe they even find ways to get off this planet before it’s beeing eaten by the sun. We certainly won’t.
Ahhh the darkness of beeing me :)
Yeah, the EU climate actions are insufficient, and the US climate actions are insufficient as well.
The sad news is that almost no country is on track, especially no larger country and large emitter. Even worse than in Europe, China’s climate actions are highly insufficient, Russian climate actions critically insufficient.
What makes things worse: China, India and Saudi Arabia rejected a COP30 dialogue on an upcoming UN review of climate plans, as a report says
Rich nations, least developed countries (LDCs), small island states, Latin American nations and the United Arab Emirates spoke in favour of a COP30 decision that acknowledges the progress and remaining gaps in nationally determined contributions (NDCs) and lays out a pathway for accelerating climate action in the years ahead.
But a group of high-income emerging countries – including China, Saudi Arabia and India – voiced strong opposition to that plan. They argued that discussions of those NDCs and the UN “synthesis report” assessing them are not on the summit’s agenda […]
Only a sixth of countries have presented their updated NDCs so far, including an emissions-cutting target for 2035, with those from many major economies including the European Union (EU), China and India still missing. A flurry of submissions is expected in the coming weeks ahead of an end-of-September deadline for their inclusion in the synthesis report.
the US climate actions are insufficient
Understatement of the … millenium, I guess.
