Global climate goals are on course to be missed

Significance

Amid rising energy and food prices, the report reaffirms the magnitude of the climate change challenge. Building on the previous two working group reports, it sets out potential solutions to the crisis and approaches that could help limit warming to 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels by 2100.

Impacts

• Scrutiny will increase, not only of the disparities in emissions between countries, but also within them.
• Research, development and the implementation of CO2 removal technologies will increase.
• Environmentalists will pressure governments and businesses to avoid relying on removal technologies to decarbonise.
• Continued failure to reach peak global emissions will exacerbate divisions in global climate negotiations.