The main task at COP28 is a first-time assessment of countries’ progress towards meeting the 2015 Paris Agreement’s goal of limiting global temperature rise to ‘well below’ 2 degrees Celsius, while aiming for 1.5C.
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The world needs to cut 43% of its emission by 2030, compared to 2019 levels, to be within the ‘safe’ limit of global temperature rise, but emissions under the current mitigation target are projected to be only 2% below those levels. A new UN report highlights the urgency of reducing emissions and the need for rapid action in this decade.