UN warns national pledges to cut emissions fall short, urgent action needed to limit global warming catastrophe.

The world's current climate pledges would only cut planet warming emissions by 2.6% by 2030, the UN has said, barely a fraction of what is needed to avert the worst impacts of global warming.

SINGAPORE: National pledges to cut greenhouse gas emissions still fall far short of what is needed to limit catastrophic global warming, the United Nations said on Monday (Oct 28) as countries prepare for the next round of climate change negotiations in November. The "nationally determined contributions" (

The stark warning from the UN climate body adds extra pressure on countries when they face each other in global climate negotiations at the COP29 summit in Azerbaijan next month.

The world is wildly off track in tackling climate change, the UN says, as CO2 in the atmosphere accumulates faster than ever

The world is on a path to get 1.8 degrees Celsius (3.2 Fahrenheit) warmer than it is now, but could trim half a degree of that projected future heating if countries do everything they promise to fight climate change, a United Nations report said Thursday.But it still won't be near enough to curb warming's worst impacts such as nastier heat waves, wildfires, storms and droughts, the report said.Under every scenario but the “most optimistic” with the biggest cuts in fossil fuels burning, the chance of curbing warming so it stays within the internationally agreed-upon limit "would be virtually zero," the United Nations Environment Programme's annual Emissions Gap Report said. The goal, set in the 2015 Paris Agreement, is to limit human-caused warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) since pre-industrial times. The report said that since the mid-1800s, the world has already heated up by 1.3 degrees Celsius (2.3 degrees Fahrenheit), up from previous estimates of 1.1 or 1.2 degrees because it includes…