Cleaner future: The Roha Dyechem solar plant in Bhadla, some 225km north of Jodhpur, India. Relying on measures such as switching to renewable energy, the world’s fourth largest greenhouse gas emitter has pledged to cut its carbon intensity by about a third by 2030 from 2005 levels. Photo: AFP
Carbon-cutting pledges from 146 nations are “far from enough” to stave off dangerous global warming, the United Nations has warned. The voluntary efforts to curb greenhouse gases – if respected – would only yield a third of the cuts needed by 2030 to keep Earth from overheating, according to a UN Environment Programme report.
Countries have made “an historic level of commitment” with their pledges, UNEP executive director Achim Steiner said. “However, they are not sufficient to limit global temperature rise to the recommended level of 2°C this century.”
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