Paris promises are inadequate say UN's Figueres

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Christina Figueres - INDCs
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he world remains on course to exceed dangerous temperature increases even if nations carry out pledges they make at next month's global climate summit in Paris, the United Nations says.

An assessment by the UN of 146 national goals and those of the European Union covering about 86 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions found they would cut average per capita pollution by as much as 8 per cent by 2025 and 9 per cent by 2030 compared with the current trajectory.

So-called Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) represent a big step forward from the 2009 Copenhagen summit but still fall short of keeping temperatures to within two-degrees warming on pre-industrial levels that scientists say would trigger dangerous climate change.

Read today’s story in the environment editor at The Sydney Morning Herald, Peter Hannam - “Paris 2015: Carbon promises lock in 2.7 degrees of warming, UN says.”