IEA and UN: world on the way to 2.5 degrees

Developments on global energy markets and the climate plans of UN nations put the world on a path toward warming of about 2.5 degrees Celsius by 2100, according to a common takeaway from the latest NDC Synthesis Report by the UN Climate Change Secretariat UNFCCC and the International Energy Agency annual World Energy Outlook (WEO), published on Wednesday and Thursday. Both reports acknowledge positive trends in global energy consumption, clean energy investment and carbon emissions toward climate protection. But the reports say they are far too slow to meet the 1.5-degree climate target.