Governments failing to cut emissions enough to meet historic agreement’s targets and avoid disaster, major stocktake paper says
Governments around the world are failing to cut greenhouse gas emissions fast enough to meet the goals of the Paris agreement and to stave off climate disaster, a major new report by the UN has found.
Meeting the goals will require “phasing out all unabated fossil fuels”, the report says, in an acknowledgement that some oil-producing countries may find hard to take. The need to phase out fossil fuels has not been explicitly adopted by the UN before, under successive rounds of climate talks, and language over “phasing out” or “phasing down” fossil fuels has sparked controversy at the annual UN climate talks.
