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Climate-fighting efforts show slight gain but still fall far short, UN says
The Associated Press ^ | November 4, 2025 | BY SETH BORENSTEIN AND MELINA WALLING

Posted on 11/04/2025 12:10:59 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

All nations of the world had homework this year: submit new-and-improved plans to fight climate change. But the plans they handed in “have barely moved the needle” on reducing Earth’s future warming, a new United Nations report finds.

And a good chunk of that progress is counteracted by the United States’ withdrawal from the effort, the report adds.

The newest climate-fighting plans — mandated every five years by the 2015 Paris Agreement — shaves about three-tenths of a degree Celsius (nearly six-tenths of a degree Fahrenheit) off a warming future compared with the projections a year ago.

Meanwhile, the Trump administration’s policies, which range from rolling back environmental regulations to hindering green energy projects, will add back a tenth of a degree of warming, the U.N. Environment Program’s Emissions Gap report said Tuesday.

“Every tenth of a degree has ramifications on communities, on ecosystems around the world. It is particularly important for those vulnerable communities and ecosystems that are already being impacted,″ said Adelle Thomas, vice chair of a separate U.N. scientific panel that calculates climate impacts.

Now the U.N. is calculating that the rest of world must cut an additional 2 billion tons a year of carbon dioxide to make up for what the report projects is growing American carbon pollution. Last year, the world pumped 57.7 billion tons of greenhouse gases into the air and needs to get down to about 33 billion tons a year to have a chance of limiting warming to near the goal, the report said.

Climate Analytics CEO Bill Hare, who helps run a separate emissions and temperature projecting report called Climate Action Tracker, said that his calculations show the same as the report.

The numbers indicate “a lack of political will,” he said.

(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: globalwarming; hoax; propaganda; socialism

1 posted on 11/04/2025 12:10:59 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“And a good chunk of that progress is counteracted by the United States’ withdrawal from the effort, the report adds.”


2 posted on 11/04/2025 12:12:10 PM PST by goodnesswins (Make educ institutions return to the Mission...reading, writing, math...not Opinions & propaganda)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

These UN climate fraudsters need to be booted out of the US.

Enough is enough.


3 posted on 11/04/2025 12:12:18 PM PST by cgbg ("The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Translation: “Give us more money.”


4 posted on 11/04/2025 12:16:59 PM PST by beethovenfan (The REAL Great Reset will be when Jesus returns. )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Prove it is warming the earth.


5 posted on 11/04/2025 12:20:42 PM PST by bray (It's not racist to be racist against races the DNC hates.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Did they punish China, India and Middle East S*holes for all their pollution? Exempting those countries from climate goals invalidates any climate argument.


6 posted on 11/04/2025 12:21:46 PM PST by EQAndyBuzz ( Covfefe! )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Dear u.n. 🖕


7 posted on 11/04/2025 12:37:49 PM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? On hold! Enlisted USN 1967 proudly. 🚫💉! 🇮🇱🙏! Winning currently!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Oh pleeeeez.....there's no way to prove that anything that we've done has altered the universe's climate.

That's the beauty of this climate hoax.

8 posted on 11/04/2025 1:11:48 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Yawn.


9 posted on 11/04/2025 2:02:25 PM PST by Sam Gamgee
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Just farted in their general direction. One one-hundredth of a degree.


10 posted on 11/04/2025 4:10:55 PM PST by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

EU, European Union. Please just go a head and die off in your allotted time by your UN models, we; the rest of world will continue as we are.

Thanks


11 posted on 11/04/2025 5:02:32 PM PST by BFW
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“fall short” is language that says “we must have the US monies”.


12 posted on 11/04/2025 5:12:30 PM PST by gildafarrell ("No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.")
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