The world has failed to slow down global warming in the last five years, according to a report released in COP31, which points out that global climate actions have stagnant and promises have not been fulfilled.
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12/11/2026
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O the world has not been able to slow global warming down in the last five years, since the plans have not been implemented and the efforts that could have helped have been cancelled, according to a report released today.
The pessimistic assessment was presented during the United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP31), which is taking place in Antalia, Turkey, where several government leaders are to address today the situation of a warming planet and the measures they intend to adopt.
“ Aggregated global climate action has virtually stagnated over the past five years, with positive and negative initiatives to nullify each other,” said the Climate Action Tracker report, an independent organisation.
In the five years following the 2015 Paris Agreement, the world has advanced sufficiently to reduce to one degree. Celsius the heating projections. However, since then, nothing has changed, the document points out.
Climate change is mainly caused by the release of greenhouse gases resulting from the burning of fuels such as gas, oil and coal.
Facing this challenge requires finding ways to drastically reduce the volume of emissions released into the atmosphere each year.
Countries establish plans for this reduction, known as “nationally determined contributions”. The speed of reductions and the strategies to achieve them vary according to each nation.
As the collective efforts of the countries were not enough to significantly reduce global emissions, the world is moving, according to the report, to “overtake, irreversibly, the limit of 1.5 degrees Celsius” above pre-industrial temperatures, the level of warming set as a goal in the Paris Agreement.
The document indicates that, even if nations fulfill all their climate promises, which is a great uncertainty, the planet will end the century at 2.6 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
This scenario maintains the same pace observed in 2024 and 2025, demonstrating that the new set of promises made last year “was not able to change” the warming projections, according to Sarah Heck, the main author of the report and climate policy analyst in Climate Analytics.
“ This is still not enough,” Heck said. “Countries really need to strengthen their goals,” he added.
This was the message that the leaders of the island nations conveyed to the rest of the world on Wednesday.
“ Every new oil well, every ton of coal extracted, poses a threat to my country's future. The discovery of new reserves of fossil fuels is not a cause for celebration, but of fear,” said Marshall Island President Hilda Heine.
The leaders of Tuvalu, Bahamas, Antigua and Barbuda, Niue and other island nations are expected to make similar appeals today.
“It’s time to wake up,” Heine said, who reported having seen corals earlier this year that were “vibrant and exuberant” become white due to whitening.
The Head of State stressed that the overall response to the inevitability to exceed the limit of 1.5°C of heating “needs to be blunt, otherwise the world as we know it will come to an end”.
To combat climate change, rich countries need not only to make more promises, but also to allocate more financial resources to poor nations, helping them to recover from climate damage and adapt to a warmer world, defending Barbados' Prime Minister Mia Mottley.
“ Promises are not payments. What was promised is now 70% below previous levels,” Mottley told the remaining leaders. “Therefore, let us be clear: the applause in this room never rebuilt a single house in any country,” he added.