With a U.N. report warning that worldwide carbon emissions remain too high to halt global warming, Brazil’s president said on Tuesday that this month’s U.N. climate change summit in the Amazon would be a "COP of Truth" and offer real solutions.
Despite three decades of global negotiations, countries will not prevent warming from exceeding 1.5 degrees Celsius — the main goal of the Paris Agreement brokered a decade ago. Instead, the world is on track for an extreme 2.3-2.5 C of warming, the United Nations' Environment Program said on Tuesday.
The forecast assumes countries will fulfill pledges they have made so far to cut emissions.
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