U.N. Report: Planned Hydrocarbon Production Will Heat Up Planet

SUGAR LAND--October 21, 2021--Written by John Egan for Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--When it comes to climate change, talk is cheap but actions are hard. That's the conclusion of a new report from the United Nations (New York, New York), The Production Gap: Governments' Planned Fossil Fuel Production Remains Dangerously Out of Sync with Paris Agreement Limits, which finds that despite many net-zero carbon pledges by governments and energy companies, planned hydrocarbon production to 2030 is more than double the level that would be consistent with limiting global temperature gain to 1.5 degrees Celsius.

Within this article: Details on the U.N.'s report and how nations are failing to live up to the goals of the climate agreement.