{"id":6840,"date":"2019-11-27T09:04:39","date_gmt":"2019-11-27T06:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=6840"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:43","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:43","slug":"10-things-to-know-about-the-emissions-gap-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/11\/27\/10-things-to-know-about-the-emissions-gap-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Things To Know About The Emissions Gap 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The annual&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.unenvironment.org\/resources\/emissions-gap-report-2019\">United Nations\nEnvironment Programme (UNEP) flagship Emissions Gap Report is now online<\/a>. But what is this\nreport really about? And why should you care? Keep reading to find out\nmore.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>1. What is the\u201cEmissions Gap\u201d?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Emissions Gap could also be called\nthe&nbsp;<strong>\u201cCommitment Gap\u201d.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong>It measures the gap between what\nwe need to do and what we are actually doing to tackle climate change. The gap\nis the difference between the low level of emissions that the world needs to\ndrop to, compared with the projected level of emissions based on countries\u2019\ncurrent commitments to decarbonization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>2. Why does the\nEmissions Gap Matter?&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The gap is important because if we can\u2019t close it and meet the emissions reduction target, we will face increasingly\u00a0<strong>severe climate impacts worldwide.<\/strong>\u00a0It is important that policymakers, and their citizens, know what the gap is so that the\u00a0<strong>commitments<\/strong>\u00a0countries are making are\u00a0<strong>sufficient to close the gap.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong> <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unenvironment.org\/news-and-stories\/story\/10-things-know-about-emissions-gap-2019\"><strong>Read more>><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The annual&nbsp;United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) flagship Emissions Gap Report is now online. But what is this report really about? And why should you care? Keep reading to find out&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6841,"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-6840","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\/6840","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=6840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}