Global warming: the UN sounds the alarm on fossil fuel production
According to the United Nations Environment Program, the global production of fossil fuels should be immediately and sharply reduced to hope to achieve the goal of limiting global warming.
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Two weeks before COP 26, forecasts for fossil energy production remain incompatible with the objective set of limiting the rise in temperatures to 1.5 °.
The United Nations also warns that global warming could affect up to 118 million Africans by 2030.
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According to the United Nations Environment Program, the global production of fossil fuels should be immediately and sharply reduced in order to achieve the goal of limiting global warming set in 2015 by the Paris Agreement.
But the trend is quite different.
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Countries "
still forecast an increase in oil and gas production, and only a modest drop in coal production by 2040,
" said Ploy Achakulwisut, a researcher at the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) and lead author of the report. published by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP). The report estimates that by 2030, it will be produced more than twice what it should be if states are to limit global warming to 1.5 °.
The announcement aims to provoke a start 10 days before the opening of the COP 26 in Glasgow, one of the objectives of which is to do everything so that the objective of + 1.5 ° C remains accessible: “
At the COP26 and beyond, the world's governments must step up and take swift and immediate action to close the fossil fuel production gap and ensure a just and equitable transition.
Climate ambition is that,
”commented UNEP boss Inger Anderson.
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres insisted on the need for decarbonization, calling for all funding dedicated to fossils to be transferred to renewable energies.
According to the report, since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic in early 2020, G20 countries have allocated around $ 300 billion in funding to fossil fuels, more than to renewables.
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