{"id":130284,"date":"2026-10-23T13:59:06","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T08:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=130284"},"modified":"2026-10-23T13:59:06","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T08:29:06","slug":"emissions-gap-report-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/emissions-gap-report-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Emissions Gap Report 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Emissions Gap Report 2026 Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Emissions Gap Report 2026 warns that the 1.5\u00b0C warming threshold is now unattainable, intensifying climate risks.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Emissions Gap Report 2026<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Emissions Gap Report is an <\/span><b>annual report<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> published by the <\/span><b><a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/united-nations-environment-programme-unep\/\" target=\"_blank\">United Nations Environment Programme<\/a> (UNEP).<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The EGR series tracks our progress in limiting global warming well below 2\u00b0Cand pursuing 1.5\u00b0C in line with the Paris Agreement.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is launched <\/span><b>every year ahead<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of the UN <\/span><b>Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP).<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The EGR is <\/span><b>co-produced by UNEP, the UNEP Copenhagen Climate Centre<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (UNEP-CCC) and partners.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>Key Highlights of Emissions Gap Report 2026 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Global greenhouse gas emissions<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> totaled <\/span><b>58.4 billion tonnes<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of carbon dioxide equivalent (GtCO\u2082e) in 2025, <\/span><b>around 0.16 GtCO\u2082e lower than in 2024<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">More than <\/span><b>two-thirds of all GHGs<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> emissions are <\/span><b>from fossil sources;<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> rest being CO\u2082 from the land use, land-use change and forestry (LULUCF), <\/span><b>methane, nitrous oxide<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and fluorinated gas emissions (F-gases).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The world has <\/span><b>lost the opportunity to keep warming to 1.5\u00b0C above<\/b> <b>pre-industrial levels<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> without, or <\/span><b>with only limited, overshoot.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To reach the lowest-overshoot pathway, global greenhouse gas emissions would need to fall by: <\/span><b>18% by 2030, 45% by 2035 and 69% by 2040.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The full implementation of countries\u2019 Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) would reduce emissions by only <\/span><b>5% to 8% by 2030 and 11% to 15% by 2035,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> relative to 2025.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b> <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.downtoearth.org.in\/climate-change\/emissions-gap-report-2026-point-of-no-return-for-the-15c-warming-threshold\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">DTE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emissions Gap Report 2026 reveals key findings on global emissions, climate change, the 1.5\u00b0C warming limit, UNEP projections and emission reduction 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