Ratcliffe on Soar power station near Nottingham
NATIONAL plans to tackle the climate crisis fall far short of what is needed to limit global warming to 1.5°C, the United Nations environmental agency has warned.
A report by the UN Environmental Programme reveals (UNEP) a huge gap between the CO2 emissions cuts pledged by countries worldwide and the reductions needed to limit any rise in global temperature to 1.5°C, the internationally agreed target.
Progress has been “woefully inadequate,” the agency said, meaning that only a “rapid transformation of societies” can avert the worst impacts of the climate change.
From summit to summit, imperialist companies and governments cut, delay or water down their commitments, warn the Communist Parties of Britain, France, Portugal and Spain and the Workers Party of Belgium in a joint statement on Cop30
Reaching co-operation is supposed to be the beginning, not the end, of global climate governance, argues LISA VANHALA
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When it comes to extreme weather events, from wildfires to flash floods, it’s firefighters who are on the front line of defence, but services have been cut to the bone, and government is not taking seriously its responsibility for the environment, says STEVE WRIGHT