The latest reports on the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) before the COP30 climate conference revealed major problems.

The world has failed to meet its main climate change target and will likely breach this threshold in the next decade, the United Nations’ Environment Programme said Tuesday.

The gap between climate promises and climate action is barely narrowing, and that puts Earth on course for a “climate breakdown,” UN Sec. Gen. António Guterres warns.

Fractional improvement in projections will be partly negated by US withdrawal of plans to limit global warming

In the complete 2025 Emissions Report, the UN cited "significant uncertainty" about remaining on track for these goals, noting that the United States' withdrawal from the agreement in 2026 "will have significant implications for [UN] estimates" and that the world may be headed for a "climate breakdown."

The findings underscore the task at hand for nations as they prepare for COP30 climate negotiations that begin Nov. 10 in Brazil. The U.N. report showed nations are on a path that would bake in long-term changes to the planet such as more deadly heat waves, runaway sea-level rise, and likelier extreme events like wildfires and droughts.

The UNEP's 2025 Emissions Gap report has found that global average temperatures will exceed 1.5 C (2.7 F) before 2035 — and this just days before the COP30 climate summit kicks off in Brazil.

Countries pledged just a 10 percent emissions cut; breaching 1.5°C warming is now “inevitable,” said António Guterres.

An alarming streak of exceptional temperatures has put 2025 on course to be among the hottest years ever recorded, the United Nations said Thursday, insisting though that the trend could still be reversed.

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