LONDON — Governments will miss global climate goals unless they agree ambitious new targets at next year’s climate summit, one of the United Nation’s leading experts has warned.
Speaking at Imperial College London on Thursday morning, Jim Skea, chair of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), said that greenhouse gas emissions targets set by individual countries to hit goals laid out in the Paris Agreement are “not nearly sufficient” to achieve their aims.
Those targets — known as nationally determined contributions or NDCs — are designed to meet the Paris goal of limiting increases in global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels.
There is currently “not enough policy on the ground” for governments to meet their NDCs, Skea said.
