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UN climate scientists have called on world leaders to step up at Glasgow climate gathering Cop26 next month as a new report warns fossil fuel emissions are set to be double safe levels this decade.
The 2021 Production Gap Report, by leading research institutes and the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), found governments’ fossil fuel production plans are dangerously out of sync with agreed limits.
The report measures the gap between governments’ planned production and the global production levels consistent with meeting the Paris Agreement temperature limits.
Over the next two decades, governments are collectively projecting an increase in global oil and gas production, and only a modest decrease in coal production.
Their projections see global, total fossil fuel production increasing until at least 2040, creating an ever-widening production gap.
UNEP executive director Inger Andersen said: “The devastating impacts of climate change are here for all to see.
“At Cop26 and beyond, the world’s governments must step up, taking rapid and immediate steps to close the fossil fuel production gap and ensure a just and equitable transition. This is what climate ambition looks like.”
