NDCs: New climate plans for 2035 reduce • Table.Briefings

Großbritannien hat erstmals ein größeres Projekte für schwimmende Offshore-Windanlagen genehmigt. Im Bild: Ein Pilotprojekt vor Frankreich. — The UK has, for the first time, approved a large-scale floating offshore wind project – and submitted a comparatively ambitious Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC).

Three months after the official deadline, only a handful of countries have submitted their NDCs for 2035. A recent evaluation indicates that these measures are insufficient to comply with the Paris Agreement.

The NDCs submitted by the UN member states so far could reduce greenhouse gas emissions by a mere 1.4 gigatons by 2035 – compared to the previous plans for 2030. According to the NDC Tracker of the World Resources Institute (WRI), only 22 countries, in addition to the US, the UK, and Brazil, have submitted their plans for 2035. Together, they account for 21 percent of emitters.

NDCs: New climate plans for 2035 reduce emissions marginally.

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