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Emissions Gap Report

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Emissions are still climbing. In 2024, global greenhouse gas emissions increased by 2.3%, reaching 57.7 gigatons of CO₂ equivalent — a faster rate of growth than in 2023 and more than four times the annual average of the 2010s.
CARBON REDUCTION

Off target: Unep warns that the world is still falling short of the Paris climate goals

A decade after the Paris Agreement united countries behind the goal of limiting global warming to well below 2°C, the latest Emissions Gap report from the United Nations…

  • Sheree Bega
7 min read
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CLIMATE CHANGE

We are nowhere where we need to be in fighting climate change

As the 28th UN climate change conference of parties, COP28, looms, there is much more work to do

  • Ozayr Patel
5 min read