Government climate plans are insufficient to reduce emissions to achieve the climate targets. The UN warns that a massive „emissions gap“ needs to be closed urgently. Global warming will reach three degrees if the current climate policy is continued and not tightened. The gap „is more like a canyon – a canyon littered with broken promises, broken lives, and broken records,“ said UN Secretary-General António Guterres at Monday’s presentation of the latest Emissions Gap Report by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP). The UN Secretary-General called for the world to move away from its „addiction to fossil fuels.“