Report calls for scaling-up of renewable energy and electrification of key sectors to limit peak of global heating
There is still a chance for the world to avoid the worst ravages of climate breakdown and return to the goal of 1.5C if governments take concerted action on greenhouse gas emissions, a new assessment argues.
The Climate Analytics report says governments’ goals are inadequate and need to be rapidly revised, and calls for the rapid scaling-up of the use of renewable energy and electrification of key sectors including transport, heating and industry.
World leaders are meeting in Belém, a small city near the mouth of the Amazon in Brazil, on Thursday and Friday to discuss the climate crisis before the Cop30 UN climate summit begins on Monday.
Temperatures have already, for two years, exceeded the limit of 1.5C of global heating above preindustrial levels that was set out in the 2015 Paris agreement.
