Greta Thunberg, Global South climate activists protest ahead of Cop26
Greta Thunberg and climate activists from the Global South protest in Stockholm ahead of the Cop26 summit in Glasgow to demand action on the environment and in particular to demand that the world's developed nations listen to people from the most affected areas.
The world's nations are currently planning to produce more than double the amount of coal, oil and gas consistent with limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, the United Nations said Wednesday.
Ten days before a climate summit that is being billed as key to the viability of the Paris Agreement temperature goals, the UN's Environment Program said that government fossil fuel production plans this decade were "dangerously out of sync" with the emissions cuts needed.
The UN says emissions must go down nearly 50 percent by 2030 and to net-zero by mid century to limit warming to 1.5C above preindustrial levels.
But its Production Gap report found that total fossil fuel production would likely increase until at least 2040.
Development plans would produce 110 percent more fossil fuels this decade than consistent with limiting global warming to 1.5C, and 45 percent more than for a world where temperatures increase 2C.
Swedish activist Greta Thunberg on Saturday said upcoming climate talks in Glasgow, billed as humanity's last chance to avoid catastrophic global warming, were unlikely to "lead to big changes".
Thunberg, whose Fridays For Future movement has inspired massive street protests around the world, said activists need to keep on "pushing" for real change.
