EMISSIONS GAP REPORTS
EMISSIONS GAP REPORTS
Emissions Gap Report 2024
The persistent focus of the report this year is on the need and options to accelerate climate action and deliver global ambition levels aligned with the Paris Agreement temperature goals in the next generation of Nationally Determined Contributions, due in 2025.
The Emissions Gap Report (EGR) is UNEP's annual institutional series report that is launched in advance of the annual climate negotiations. The EGR tracks the gap between where global emissions are heading with current country commitments and where they ought to be to limit warming to well below 2°C and pursuing 1.5°C in line with the Paris Agreement temperature goals. Each edition explores ways to bridge the emissions gap, tackling specific issue(s) of interest and relevance to the negotiations each year.
Emissions Gap Report 2023
As greenhouse gas emissions hit new highs, temperature records tumble and climate impacts intensify, the Emissions Gap Report 2023: Broken Record – Temperatures hit new highs, yet world fails to cut emissions (again) finds that the world is heading for a temperature rise far above the Paris Agreement goals unless countries deliver more than they have promised. The report is the 14th edition in a series that brings together many of the world’s top climate scientists to look at future trends in greenhouse gas emissions and provide potential solutions to the challenge of global warming.
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Emissions Gap Report 2022
Updated national pledges since COP26 make a negligible difference to predicted 2030 emissions. We are far from the Paris Agreement goal of limiting global warming to well below 2°C, preferably 1.5°C.
Policies currently in place point to a 2.8°C temperature rise by the end of the century. Implementation of the current pledges will only reduce this to a 2.4-2.6°C temperature rise by the end of the century, for conditional and unconditional pledges respectively.
The 2022 Emissions Gap Report finds that only an urgent system-wide transformation can deliver the enormous cuts needed to limit greenhouse gas emissions.
EMISSIONS GAP REPORTS
Emissions Gap Report 2021
It is very promising that an increasing number of countries are pledging net-zero emissions by around mid-century. By now, more than 50% of global GHG emissions are covered by such pledges. But these pledges are in many cases not reflected in near-term plans and action. That has to urgently change to maintain confidence that the net-zero emissions pledges can actually be achieved.
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Emissions Gap Report 2020
The Emissions Gap Report assesses the latest scientific studies on current and estimated future greenhouse gas emissions and compares these with emission levels needed to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement. This difference between “where we are likely to be and where we need to be” is known as the ‘emissions gap’.
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Emissions Gap Report 2019
The 10th edition of the UN Environment Emissions Gap Report assesses the latest scientific studies on current and estimated future greenhouse gas emissions and compares these with achieving the goals of the Paris Agreement.
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Emissions Gap Report 2018
This is the 9th edition of the UN Environment Emissions Gap Report. It assesses the latest scientific studies on current and estimated future greenhouse gas emissions and compares these with the emission levels permissible for the world to progress on a least-cost pathway to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement. This difference between “where we are likely to be and where we need to be” is known as the ‘emissions gap’.
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Emissions Gap Report 2017
The UN Environment Emissions Gap Report 2017 presents an assessment of current national mitigation efforts and the ambitions countries have presented in their Nationally Determined Contributions, which form the foundation of the Paris Agreement.
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Bridging the Gap – Enhancing Mitigation Ambition and Action at G20 Level and Globally
Pre-release version of a chapter in the forthcoming UNEP Emissions Gap Report 2019
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Lessons from a decade of emissions gap assessments
This publication looks back at ten years of Emissions Gap Reports and global climate action, and what remains to be done to limit the global temperature rise to 1.5°C as per the Paris Agreement.
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