{"id":277047,"date":"2025-11-07T10:21:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T10:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/277047\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T10:21:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T10:21:17","slug":"starmer-warns-consensus-is-gone-on-fighting-climate-change-as-leaders-gather-at-cop30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/277047\/","title":{"rendered":"Starmer warns &#8216;consensus is gone&#8217; on fighting climate change as leaders gather at COP30"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Where do we stand on tackling climate change?published at 16:14 GMT 6 November<\/p>\n<p>16:14 GMT 6 November<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-8kvzjk-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/7f4c913c-142b-4a77-a14f-aee36363ed8c.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Mark Poynting<br \/>Climate reporter<\/p>\n<p>      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Suega Apelu stands in the lagoon on November 28, 2019 in Funafuti, Tuvalu.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/7c64c821-ee7f-44f9-ba27-58e55076162a.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">We&#8217;ve just heard from several world leaders, and Prince William, about the fast approaching threats of climate change.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Here&#8217;s where the world currently stands on tackling climate change:<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ten years ago in Paris,<br \/>\nnearly 200 countries pledged to keep global temperature rises &#8220;well<br \/>\nbelow&#8221; 2C above pre-industrial levels and to try to limit warming to 1.5C.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nations agreed that<br \/>\nmeeting the Paris targets would greatly reduce the impacts of climate change.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At the time, the world<br \/>\nwas on course for global warming of nearly 4C.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Since then, there\u2019s been<br \/>\nconsiderable progress \u2013 but not enough.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Based on current<br \/>\npolicies, the world could be on course for about 2.8C of warming compared with the<br \/>\nlate 1800s, according to figures released this week by the UN Environment<br \/>\nProgramme (UNEP).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">And even if the new,<br \/>\nmore ambitious pledges made by countries ahead of COP30 were implemented,<br \/>\nwarming could reach 2.3\u20132.5C, UNEP says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">That\u2019s even without<br \/>\naccounting for the US rolling back on its commitments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">So it\u2019s no surprise that<br \/>\nthe UN is calling for \u201crapid and unprecedented cuts\u201d to emissions \u201cfar above<br \/>\nwhat has been pledged\u201d if the Paris goals are to be met.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">That\u2019s quite a task for the world leaders in Brazil today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Where do we stand on tackling climate change?published at 16:14 GMT 6 November 16:14 GMT 6 November Mark&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277048,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[192,79],"class_list":{"0":"post-277047","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}