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Appendices - Emissions Gap Report 2022: The Closing Window - Climate Crisis Calls for Rapid Transformation of Societies
(2022-10)This document includes: Appendix A Supplementary material for chapter 2: Global emissions trends; Appendix B Supplementary material for chapter 3: Nationally determined contributions and long-term pledges: The global ... -
Executive Summary — Emissions Gap Report 2022: The Closing Window — Climate Crisis Calls for Rapid Transformation of Societies
(2022-10)This thirteenth edition of the Emissions Gap Report is testimony to inadequate action on the global climate crisis, and is a call for the rapid transformation of societies. Since the twenty-sixth United Nations Climate ... -
Chapter 7. Transforming the finance system to enable the achievement of the Paris Agreement - Emissions Gap Report 2022: The Closing Window — Climate Crisis Calls for Rapid Transformation of Societies
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2022-10)A realignment of the financial system is a critical enabler of the sectoral transitions required to address the current climate crises. Article 2.1(c) of the Paris Agreement calls for this and establishes a new objective ... -
Chapter 6. Transforming food systems - Emissions Gap Report 2022: The Closing Window — Climate Crisis Calls for Rapid Transformation of Societies
(2022-10)This chapter presents the needs, current state and options for accelerating a food system transformation. It focuses on GHG emissions and climate change, but also discusses important synergies and trade-offs with the ... -
Chapter 5. Transformations needed to achieve the Paris Agreement in electricity supply, industry, buildings and transportation - Emissions Gap Report 2022: The Closing Window — Climate Crisis Calls for Rapid Transformation of Societies
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2022-10)This chapter focuses on the key transformations required in electricity supply, industry, buildings and transportation, while chapter 6 focuses on the transformation of food systems, and chapter 7 on transforming the ... -
Chapter 4. The emissions gap - Emissions Gap Report 2022: The Closing Window — Climate Crisis Calls for Rapid Transformation of Societies
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Chapter 3. Nationally determined contributions and long-term pledges: The global landscape and G20 member progress - Emissions Gap Report 2022: The Closing Window — Climate Crisis Calls for Rapid Transformation of Societies
(2022-10)This chapter provides an updated assessment of progress on nationally determined contributions (NDCs) and long-term pledges, focusing on three key questions: 1. What global progress has been made — overall and since the ... -
Chapter 2. Global emissions trends - Emissions Gap Report 2022: The Closing Window — Climate Crisis Calls for Rapid Transformation of Societies
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2022-10)This chapter assesses trends in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions up to and including 2021. It analyses global emissions by gas, country, household and sector, providing the current and historical context for subsequent ... -
Chapter 1. Introduction - Emissions Gap Report 2022: The Closing Window — Climate crisis calls for rapid transformation of societies
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2022-10)In line with the Emissions Gap Report, the IPCC reports send a reverberating message that the window of opportunity to limit global warming to well below 2°C, preferably 1.5°C, thereby avoiding some unmanageable climate ... -
Emissions Gap Report 2022: Key Messages - Emissions Gap Report 2022: The Closing Window – Inadequate Progress on Climate Action Makes Urgent Transformation Only Option
(2022-10)As climate impacts intensify, the Emissions Gap Report 2022: The Closing Window – Climate crisis calls for rapid transformation of societies finds that the world is still falling short of the Paris climate goals, with no ... -
Emissions Gap Report 2022: The Closing Window - Climate Crisis Calls for Rapid Transformation of Societies
(2022-10)This thirteenth edition of the Emissions Gap Report is a testimony to inaction on the global climate crisis. In just eight years, global GHG emissions must be reduced by 30 to 45 per cent compared to where they are headed ... -
Zeroing in on Net Zero
(2021)UNEP’s Emissions Gap Report 2021 finds that annual greenhouse gas emissions need to almost halve by 2030 to limit global warming to 1.5°C, but the updated Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) under the Paris Agreement ... -
The Role of Market Mechanisms in Bridging the Gap
(2021)UNEP’s Emissions Gap Report 2021 finds that annual greenhouse gas emissions need to almost halve by 2030 to limit global warming to 1.5°C, but the updated Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) under the Paris Agreement ... -
Chapter 7. The Role of Market Mechanisms in Bridging the Gap - Emissions Gap Report 2021: The Heat Is On – A World of Climate Promises Not Yet Delivered
(2021)NDCs and promote greater ambition, while at the same time fostering sustainable development and encouraging broad participation from both the private and public sectors. Market mechanisms are therefore seen as one important ... -
Chapter 6. The role of anthropogenic methane emissions in bridging the emissions gap - Emissions Gap Report 2021: The Heat Is On – A World of Climate Promises Not Yet Delivered
(2021)This chapter assesses the role of methane in the NDCs and in bridging the emissions gap, and considers options for cost-effective reductions of the otherwise growing emissions of methane. -
Chapter 5. Are COVID-19 fiscal recovery measures bridging or extending the emissions gap? - Emissions Gap Report 2021: The Heat Is On – A World of Climate Promises Not Yet Delivered
(2021)This chapter explores three questions: 1) How could COVID-19 related public spending bridge the emissions gap? 2) What are the characteristics of fiscal rescue and recovery spending to date and how may they impact the ... -
Chapter 4. The emissions gap - Emissions Gap Report 2021: The Heat Is On – A World of Climate Promises Not Yet Delivered
(2021)The emissions gap is estimated as the difference between projected global GHG emissions assuming full implementation of the mitigation pledges that countries have made for 2030, and emissions under least-cost pathways ... -
Chapter 3. Net-Zero Emission Targets - Emissions Gap Report 2021: The Heat Is On – A World of Climate Promises Not Yet Delivered
(2021)This chapter looks at how net-zero emission targets have emerged from the scientific understanding of the climate system and the goals of the Paris Agreement (section 3.2). It sets out the considerations in translating ... -
Chapter 1. Introduction - Emissions Gap Report 2021: The Heat Is On – A World of Climate Promises Not Yet Delivered
(2021)This twelfth edition of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Emissions Gap Report comes during a year of constant reminders that climate change is not in the distant future. Extreme weather events around the ... -
Chapter 2. Trends in global emissions, new pledges for 2030 and G20 status and outlook - Emissions Gap Report 2021: The Heat Is On – A World of Climate Promises Not Yet Delivered
(2021)This chapter reviews the current status of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions as well as the outlook for 2030 emissions under new or updated NDCs and announced mitigation pledges. Furthermore, it reviews progress towards ...
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