The “State of Climate Action 2025” report from the World Resources Institute found that the world’s governments are failing on all 45 indicators of progress towards limiting global heating to 1.5 degrees. Of these, 29 indicators are “well off track”, meaning at least a twofold and for most a fourfold acceleration of progress is needed to meet end-of-decade targets.
Five indicators—the carbon intensity of steel production, the share of kilometres travelled by passenger cars, mangrove loss, share of food production lost, and public fossil fuel finance—are heading in the wrong direction.
There is not even enough data to analyse the trend for the remaining five: the rate of retrofitting buildings, the share of new buildings which are zero-carbon, peatland degradation, peatland restoration and food waste.
2.8 my arse.
We are comprehensively losing the battle for 3c@2100 anthropogenic climate change, and so looking warily toward 4c after inevitable feedbacks.
The good news is those born then won’t know a better world. The bad news is it won’t necessarily end at 4c so they still might experience the mourning many of us are and already have gone through.