{"id":5132,"date":"2019-09-06T09:54:52","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T06:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=5132"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:31","slug":"is-the-world-living-up-to-its-climate-commitments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/09\/06\/is-the-world-living-up-to-its-climate-commitments\/","title":{"rendered":"Is The World Living Up To Its Climate Commitments?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>By UN News<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Around three years ago, the global community gathered\nin&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/unfccc.int\/process-and-meetings\/the-paris-agreement\/the-paris-agreement\">Paris<\/a>&nbsp;in\norder to build a common approach to fighting climate change. They agreed to\nmake efforts to restrict the rise in global temperatures to \u201cwell below\u201d 2\ndegrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels and, if possible, reach 1.5 degrees\nCelsius.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, in July of this year the temperature measured\n1.2 degrees Celsius above those levels \u2013 matching, and even breaking, the\nrecord for the hottest month since records began \u2013 and the trend is continuing\nupwards. Extreme weather events across the world mean the planet is on track to\nrecord the five hottest years on record, according to the UN Secretary-General,\nAnt\u00f3nio Guterres.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr. Guterres says that we are engaged in a \u201crace to limit\nclimate change\u201d.&nbsp;So are we winning? UN News decided to take a closer look\nat one of the key international instruments used to measure the fight against\nglobal warming: Nationally Determined Contributions, or&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/unfccc.int\/process-and-meetings\/the-paris-agreement\/nationally-determined-contributions-ndcs\">NDCs<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/news.un.org\/en\/story\/2019\/09\/1045592\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By UN News Around three years ago, the global community gathered in&nbsp;Paris&nbsp;in order to build a common approach to fighting climate change. They agreed to make efforts to restrict the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5133,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}