The goal was flawed to begin with, some advocates say.
The world’s leading climate experts called for more swift action on climate change in a majorreleased today by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change . Near-term goals to slash greenhouse gas pollution need to be a much higher priority, advocates say, and there’s precious little time to reach them.
“The climate time-bomb is ticking. But today’s IPCC report is a how-to guide to defuse the climate time-bomb. It is a survival guide for humanity,” United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said in aGreenhouse gas emissions causing climate change need to peak by 2025 to keep global warming from surpassing a critical threshold, the report says.
Still, some advocates are wary of fuzzy, far-off targets that set goalposts decades into the future. “What makes me anxious is the pace at which we are doing things when we need to be achieving a lot more in the near term,” says Harjeet Singh, head of global political strategy at Climate Action Network International. “Of course, we needed a long term horizon ... but the whole terminology of ‘net-zero’ has been extremely problematic.
Getting to net-zero emissions worldwide by the middle of the century became a mainstream target thanks to another climate from the United Nations in 2018. That research is included in the IPCC’s report today, which is a synthesis of all the IPCC’s recent work since the 2018 publication.
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