NEW DELHI: Unveiling a stark disparity in local weather motion forward of the upcoming UN local weather convention (CO), a brand new report of the Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF) – a global coalition of 58 international locations extremely susceptible to a warming planet – stated that India, Indonesia, the UK and Switzerland alone are amongst main economies at present on monitor to satisfy Paris Agreement targets primarily based on their pledged targets for 2030.

The examine, launched on Monday, discovered that main economies largely set emissions targets that assume all nations scale back emissions on the identical charge, failing to account for his or her larger share of air pollution or to differentiate efforts between the richest and poorest international locations primarily based on their respective historic emissions.
Of the main rising economies, India, house to nearly a fifth of the world’s inhabitants, produces simply 2.9 tonne of CO2 per particular person in comparison with the G7 common of 11.7 tonne of per capita emission (2021 information). Against the worldwide per capita emission of 6.4 tonne of CO2 in 2021, EU’s (27 nations) per capita emission is 8.1 tonne whereas China’s per capita emission stands at 10.1 tonne and the US’s per capita emission stands at 17.5 tonne (six occasions greater than India).

Flagging the gaps, the CVF’s examine – known as Traffic Light Assessment Report: Fair Share Pathways to Combat Global Climate Breakdown – goals to carry nations accountable by assessing their alignment with the Paris Agreement’s temperature and fairness rules.
“Countries not pledging their fair share to deliver the Paris Agreement are overwhelmingly the world’s wealthiest and highest capability nations (based on GDP/ HDI),” stated the report, noting that India and Indonesia are the one two international locations among the many G20 nations whose local weather actions are compliant to their respective Paris Agreement targets for 2030. It reveals that whereas a majority of nations are compliant, rich nations, significantly these within the G7 and G20, are falling considerably quick.
“The major economies, especially in the West, have spent the past century growing rich off the back of fossil-fuel-powered industrialisation. As vulnerable nations, we are convinced it is only fair that those who polluted the most in the past must make a greater effort to tackle climate change, especially when they are also the richest and most capable to act,” stated Nana Akufo-Addo, President of Ghana, chair of the CVF.
The report assumes significance in view of the worldwide stocktake of local weather actions of nations which can be concluded in the course of the CO throughout November 30 – December 12 in Dubai, UAE.