Countries worldwide are failing to boost their climate targets in what analysts describe as a weakening effort to address rising temperatures 10 years after the Paris Agreement was finalized.
A new analysis from Climate Action Tracker, a project that monitors governments’ climate goals, shows that none of the roughly 40 countries it tracks have strengthened their 2030 targets in plans recently submitted to the United Nations. Just one country offered a plan with a 2035 target that’s strong enough to comply with the stretch goal of the Paris Agreement.
At the same time, the United States is dismantling the policies that underpin the targets it submitted late last year under then-President Joe Biden.
If the Trump administration successfully rolls back major components of Biden’s climate and bipartisan infrastructure laws, carbon dioxide emissions could be twice as high as what’s needed in 2035 to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement, said Ana Missirliu, an analyst at NewClimate Institute, which compiles data for the tracker along with Climate Analytics.
