{"id":37942,"date":"2023-10-30T06:52:21","date_gmt":"2023-10-30T01:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=37942"},"modified":"2025-04-23T03:08:14","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T21:38:14","slug":"emission-goals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/emission-goals\/","title":{"rendered":"Developed Countries to Overshoot Emission Goals"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>What\u2019s in Today\u2019s Article?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Why in the News?<\/li>\n<li>About the Study<\/li>\n<li>Major Findings of the Study<\/li>\n<li>Significance of these Findings<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Why in the News?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>According to a study published last week by the Council for Energy Environment and Water (CEEW), developed countries will end up emitting 38% more carbon in 2030 than they have committed to, going by current trajectories.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>About the Study<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Council for Energy Environment and Water (CEEW) is a Delhi-based thinktank.<\/li>\n<li>The CEEW published a report with the objective of tracking developed countries\u2019 Emission Trajectories.<\/li>\n<li>The study aimed to find out whether the developed countries, responsible for over 75 per cent of historical emissions, are taking deep emission reductions at an adequate pace?<\/li>\n<li>The study aimed to analyse the emission trajectories of developed countries, covering historic and projected emissions in the six decades spanning 1990\u20132050.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Major Findings of the Study<\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/media\/editor_images\/2023\/10\/30\/13\/37\/52\/653f6458180fcb05b4b556be_OI.PNG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The key findings of the study include:\n<ul>\n<li>By 2030, developed countries will overshoot carbon emission targets by 38 per cent.<\/li>\n<li>Only two developed countries\u2014Norway and Belarus\u2014are on track to achieve their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs).<\/li>\n<li>Even with post-2030 reductions, developed countries&#8217; total emissions would still threaten 1.5\u00b0C target.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Developed countries are projected to collectively emit around 3.7 giga tonnes extra carbon dioxide in 2030, against the reduction goals expressed in their NDCs under the 2016 Paris Agreement.\n<ul>\n<li>This represents a 38 per cent emission overshoot, with the United States, European Union, and Russia responsible for 83 per cent of this.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Further, only two developed countries\u2014namely Norway and Belarus\u2014are on track to achieve their reduction commitments by 2030.\n<ul>\n<li>The mitigation efforts of developed countries impact the carbon budget available to developing nations, which need sufficient carbon space to address their economic and social development challenges and ensure a just transition.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Further, currently, developed countries\u2019 NDCs for 2030 collectively represent a 36 per cent reduction in emissions from their 2019 levels.\n<ul>\n<li>This is less than the global average of 43 per cent that is required to keep the 1.5\u00b0C target alive.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Significance of these Findings<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The report makes it clear that even in this critical decade (2020-30), developed countries are not projected to meet their 2030 NDC targets.<\/li>\n<li>This failure has implications for the limited global carbon budget available now, especially for developing countries like India.<\/li>\n<li>The projections also reveal that developed countries rely on drastically ramping up emission reductions after 2030.\n<ul>\n<li>Even if all developed countries were to reach net zero by 2050, they would require more than four times the average annual reductions they achieved from 1990 to 2020.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The study recommends that instead of relying on future events, developed countries should define clear year-on-year reduction plans to meet their targets in this critical decade.<\/li>\n<li>Further, to build trust, developed countries need to be reliable and stay committed to the Paris Agreement.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) When was IPCC Established?<\/h3>\n<p>The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was established by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) in 1988.<\/p>\n<h3>Q2) What is Carbon Footprint?<\/h3>\n<p>It is a measure of the amount of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere as a result of the activities of a particular individual, organization, or community.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/energy-and-environment\/developed-countries-to-overshoot-carbon-emissions-goal-study\/article67473364.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Developed countries to overshoot carbon emissions goal: study<\/u><\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ceew.in\/sites\/default\/files\/CEEW-Research-On-Trust-And-Transparency-In-Climate-Action.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>CEEW<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Developed countries will end up emitting 38% more carbon in 2030 than they have committed to, going by current trajectories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":37943,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-37942","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-mains-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}