Click to view full size

The Al­liance of Small Is­land De­vel­op­ing States (AO­SIS) has ex­pressed con­cern over the find­ings of the lat­est Unit­ed Na­tions NDC Syn­the­sis Re­port, re­leased on Tues­day in New York City. The re­port, which re­views new and up­dat­ed Na­tion­al­ly De­ter­mined Con­tri­bu­tions (ND­Cs) un­der the Paris Agree­ment, re­veals that on­ly 64 coun­tries have sub­mit­ted their up­dat­ed cli­mate tar­gets, ac­count­ing for just 30 per­cent of glob­al emis­sions.

AO­SIS stat­ed that the lim­it­ed num­ber of sub­mis­sions and weak col­lec­tive tar­gets rep­re­sent a set­back in the ef­fort to lim­it glob­al warm­ing to 1.5°C. The group em­pha­sized that 131 coun­tries have not yet sub­mit­ted their up­dat­ed ND­Cs, de­spite the call for all par­ties to do so by Sep­tem­ber 2025.

Ac­cord­ing to the re­port, glob­al emis­sions are pro­ject­ed to fall by on­ly 17 per­cent be­low 2019 lev­els by 2035, far be­low the 45 per­cent re­duc­tion re­quired by 2030 to meet the 1.5°C tar­get. AO­SIS said this short­fall in­di­cates a se­vere de­lay in ac­tion and called for re­newed com­mit­ment from ma­jor emit­ters.