Current plans to cut carbon emissions don’t work quickly enough, says the UN National plans to cut carbon fall far short of what’s needed to avert dangerous climate change, according to the UN Environment Programme. Their Emissions Gap report says country pledges will fail to keep the global temperature under 1.5C this century. The UNEP analysis suggests the world is on course to warm around 2.7C with hugely destructive impacts. But there is hope that, if long-term net-zero goals are met, temperatures can be significantly reined in. Attenborough in ‘act now’ warning over climate Make people fly less, climate change advisers say Australia’s 2050 net-zero pledge draws criticism Just a few days before COP26 opens in Glasgow, another scientific report on climate change is “another thundering wake-up call”, according to the UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres. Grantham Climate Art Prize 2021 Street art in Glasgow […]