This new edition of the Emission Gap Report provides an update on global emissions trajectories and progress towards national mitigation commitments and the Paris Agreement targets. Besides, it highlights the gap between emission reduction needs and prospects, and compares current trajectories with future scenarios for meeting the 1.5°C and 2°C targets.
To this end, it examines various sectors, including electricity supply, industry, transportation, buildings, and the food and financial systems, and considers how they might be transformed to meet emission reduction targets.
Eventually, this edition has received methodological improvements to refine the estimates, making them less comparable to the previous year’s projections.
Since the update of the emission reduction targets requested the Glasgow Pact (COP26), progress by Parties are limited and the gap between promised and needed reductions remains significant.
Finally, the report insists on the impossibility of gradual change, underlining the obligation not to close the window of opportunity towards a limit of less than 2°C, and ideally 1.5°C, and highlighting the immediate and systemic nature of the transformations to be carried out.
💡To track government action and put it in perspective with the goals of the Paris Agreement, the Climate Action Tracker website, the work of an independent scientific project, provides data and analysis to follow the progress of state mitigation actions.
