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Climate Action Tracker: Many NDCs insufficient and misleading

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Viele Pazifik-Staaten sind durch den Meeresspiegel in ihrer Existenz bedroht. Die Hauptinsel von Tuvalu nach einer Überflutung.
National climate targets lack ambition, the 1.5-degree target will soon be exceeded and many Pacific states – here Tuvalu – are threatened by rising sea levels.

Shortly before the UN member states present their new national climate plans (NDCs), a recent study accuses them of lacking ambition, relying on dubious concepts and concealing data. The latest edition of the Climate Action Tracker (CAT) concludes that climate action efforts are stagnating worldwide. „This lack of progress is deeply concerning,“ is the verdict. Meanwhile, a recent in-depth study shows that the global carbon budget to stay within the 1.5-degree limit will be exhausted in just three to five years if no radical course changes are made.

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