A senior U.N. official says countries have “procrastinated” for too long and should start making steep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions immediately, or risk missing agreed targets for limiting global warming.
File - In this Friday, Sept. 6, 2019 file photo, commuters make their way along an expressway during rush hour in Beijing. According to Chinese state media, the average concentration of PM2.5 fine air pollutants in Beijing in August was at the lowest level ever recorded for that month. Inger Andersen, head of the U.N. Environment Program, says the world needs 'quick wins to reduce emissions as much as possible in 2020.
“We need quick wins to reduce emissions as much as possible in 2020,” Andersen said, as her agency published itsshowing the amount of planet-heating gases being pumped into the atmosphere hitting a new high last year, despite a near-global pledge to reduce them. “We need to catch up on the years in which we procrastinated,” said Andersen. “If we don’t do this, the 1.5C goal will be out of reach before 2030.”
“Major societal and economic transformations need to take place in the next decade to make up for the inaction of the past,” it said, adding that these measures would need to include ending the use of fossil fuels in the energy, building and transport sectors.which found that countries are planning to extract more than twice the amount of fossil fuels from the ground than can be burned in 2030 if the 1.5C target is to be met.
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