Global climate pledges are drastically off track and could lead to an increase in greenhouse gas emissions of nearly a fifth by 2030 if countries do not raise their ambitions, a UN analysis of national goals has warned.
The announcement, less than a week ahead of the UK-hosted COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, was compounded by an admission from wealthy countries that they had failed to deliver a promised $100bn of climate finance by 2020. Meeting that goal, which is a central element of the Paris accord, would be pushed back to 2023 instead.
The flurry of bad news underlines the uphill task that the UK faces as it seeks to make a success of the most important climate summit since Paris six years ago.
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