Overview
- A United Nations analysis of 113 parties’ updated targets projects only a 12% cut in global greenhouse gas emissions by 2035 compared with 2019.
- Meeting the Paris Agreement’s 1.5°C goal would require roughly a 60% reduction by 2035, underscoring a major ambition gap.
- The new UN review covers countries and regions responsible for about 69% of global emissions.
- Brazil and at least ten countries launched a declaration to counter climate misinformation and corporate greenwashing, with signatories including Germany, Canada and France, while Japan did not join.
- President Donald Trump sent no senior federal officials to COP30, as a roughly 100-person ‘America Is All In’ delegation of U.S. states and businesses participated and California Governor Gavin Newsom criticized federal policy.