UN warns countries’ carbon-cutting plans put world on course for 2.7C rises

Published in the run up to the latest UN climate summit, a new report confirms that countries are nowhere near what the science says the world needs to be to limit rising temperatures to globally-agreed goals

Under the Paris Agreement, countries committed to holding global temperature rises to 'well below”'2C and to try to keep warming to 1.5C to avoid the worst impacts of climate change. Picture: John Giles/PA

National plans by countries to tackle the climate crisis leave the world on track for temperature rises of 2.7C, the UN has warned.

A report by the UN Climate Change body assessed all the national plans that have been put forward by countries to cut emissions over the next decade as part of efforts to meet international targets to curb dangerous warming.