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July 31, 2021
China and India, the two most populous countries in the world, along with about 80 other countries have not met the deadline of July 30 set by the UN climate agency to present new targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions. China is the country with the highest emissions in the world, India is the third. The United States, which presented its new cutting targets in April, is the second largest polluter globally. Among the countries that have not declared the new objectives there are also Saudi Arabia, South Africa and Syria.
The new targets should be included in a report that the United Nations is preparing ahead of the November climate summit. The number one of the UN climate agency, Patricia Espinosa, instead welcomed the fact that 110 signatory countries of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change have met the deadline, which had been postponed since the end of 2020 due to the pandemic . But she said she was "far from satisfied" as only 58% submitted their goals on time.
Espinosa pointed out that a previous report highlighted that countries were doing too little to meet the goal of keeping global warming below 2 ° by the end of the century compared to the pre-industrial era. The more ambitious target of stopping global warming at 1.5 ° is far out of reach. "The recent extreme heatwaves, droughts and floods around the globe are a desperate warning that more and much more needs to be done to change our current path," Espinosa said.