{"id":23540,"date":"2018-11-28T09:22:13","date_gmt":"2018-11-28T09:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=23540"},"modified":"2018-11-28T09:22:13","modified_gmt":"2018-11-28T09:22:13","slug":"world-is-woefully-short-of-2-degree-goal-for-climate-change-according-to-un-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=23540","title":{"rendered":"World is woefully short of 2 degree goal for climate change, according to UN report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>If there is one consistent message about climate change that has been made abundantly clear in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/10\/07\/world\/climate-change-new-ipcc-report-wxc\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">flurry of recent major assessments on the topic<\/a>, it is that our planet&#8217;s climate is already changing, and now is the time to act to avoid devastating impacts.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">According to a United Nations report released Tuesday, however, projected emissions of carbon dioxide, the primary greenhouse gas, from nations around the world fall woefully short of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2015\/04\/21\/opinions\/sutter-climate-two-degrees\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">2 degree Celsius goal<\/a> set in the Paris Climate Agreement in 2015.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">In fact, the report states that the current emission targets for all countries would result in an average global temperature rise of 3.2 degrees Celsius (5.8 degrees Fahrenheit) by 2100.  <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)If there is one consistent message about climate change that has been made abundantly clear in a flurry of recent major assessments on the topic, it is that our planet&#8217;s climate is already changing, and now is the time to act to avoid devastating impacts.According to a United Nations report released Tuesday, however, projected emissions&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":23541,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}