Countries Climate Pledges Will Cut Emissions By 12 Says Un

Sign up to our weekly and monthly, easy-to-digest recap of climate news from around the world. Without the Paris Agreement, which mandates its signatories to submit climate plans every five years, we would be looking at an increase of emissions between 20-48% by 2035 compared to 2019 levels. An updated report on countries’ climate pledges revealed that the yearly amount of planet-warming gases added to the atmosphere could decrease 12% by 2035 from 2019 levels. The revised figure is slightly higher than the one presented in an analysis last month, as it takes into account climate pledges submitted since the cutoff for the previous analysis. The new report, unveiled Monday by the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), takes into account 86 climate plans submitted by 113 Parties between January 1, 2024 and November 9, 2025. Together, these plans – also known as Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) – put us on track to cut emissions by 12% in the next 10 years.

⁠ BELEM, Brazil — The yearly amount of planet-warming gases added to the atmosphere will decrease 12 per cent by 2035 from 2019 levels, according to a new analysis published Monday (Nov 10) by the... The revised figure represents progress from the expected 10 per cent reduction announced on Oct 28, and takes into account pledges made since the cutoff for the previous analysis. Nevertheless, the projected 12 per cent cut is far short of the 60 per cent emissions drop needed by 2035 to limit global warming at 1.5 deg C above pre-industrial temperatures — the threshold... Without the Paris Agreement, which mandates its signatories to submit climate plans every five years, we would be looking at an increase of emissions between 20-48% by 2035 compared to 2019 levels. An updated report on countries’ climate pledges revealed that the yearly amount of planet-warming gases added to the atmosphere could decrease 12% by 2035 from 2019 levels.

The revised figure is slightly higher than the one presented in an analysis last month, as it takes into account climate pledges submitted since the cutoff for the previous analysis. The new report, unveiled Monday by the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), takes into account 86 climate plans submitted by 113 Parties between January 1, 2024 and November 9, 2025. Together, these plans – also known as Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) – put us on track to cut emissions by 12% in the next 10 years. ⁠ Without the Paris Agreement, we would be looking at an increase of emissions between 20-48% by 2035 compared to 2019 levels, the report added. The UK Environment Improvement Plan is sharpening the national focus on *environmental sustainability in construction* with its commitment to halve residual waste by 2042, aligning national policy with the principles of the circular economy...

The shift demands integration of *circular construction strategies* and *end-of-life reuse in construction* to achieve measurable reductions in the *carbon footprint of construction*. Progress will depend on embedding whole life carbon assessment and *lifecycle assessment* within public procurement and private-sector project delivery, ensuring *life cycle thinking in construction* extends beyond policy to tangible *sustainable building practices*. Tarmac’s introduction of electric HGVs in London highlights rapid electrification of logistics within the *low carbon building* supply chain, advancing *decarbonising the built environment* through *low carbon design* and *eco-friendly construction*. This operational shift supports the creation of *net zero whole life carbon* frameworks and reflects a wider movement toward *carbon neutral construction* where power efficiency, *low carbon construction materials*, and *green building products* intersect... The cancellation of BP’s Teesside hydrogen and carbon capture project raises critical questions for *low embodied carbon materials* and *net zero carbon buildings*, exposing policy volatility that threatens investment confidence in *renewable building materials*... The episode underscores the need for resilient pathways to reduce embodied carbon in materials and the *environmental impact of construction* across the industrial supply base.

The Highland transmission hub led by BAM and SSEN illustrates how *sustainable building design* and *green construction* rely on dependable energy supply. By improving grid connectivity for *energy-efficient buildings* and temporary construction sites, the project enhances *building lifecycle performance* and supports *sustainable urban development* through better access to *renewable* power. The success of *sustainable construction* across 2024 will rest on disciplined whole life carbon management and robust implementation of *eco-design for buildings*, guided by transparent *environmental product declarations (EPDs)* and *sustainable material specification*. The industry can only achieve *net zero carbon* outcomes when commitments to *sustainable design* and life cycle cost performance become the operational norm, backed by metrics such as *BREEAM v7* and broader accountability across... Only 64 countries have submitted new plans to cut carbon, the UN says, despite all being required to do so ahead of next month's COP30 summit. Added together these national pledges would fail to keep the world from warming by more than 1.5C, a key threshold to very dangerous levels of climate change.

While the UN review does show progress in curbing carbon emissions over the next decade, the projected fall is not enough to stop temperatures surging past this global target. The report underlines the scale of the task facing world leaders who head to Belém in northern Brazil next week for the COP30 climate gathering. Ten years after the Paris climate pact was agreed in 2015, the efforts of countries to restrict the rise in global temperatures are under renewed scrutiny. Vishwa Mohan is Senior Editor at The Times of India. He writes on environment, climate change, agriculture, water resources and clean energy, tracking policy issues and climate diplomacy. He has been covering Parliament since 2003 to see how politics shaped up domestic policy and India’s position at global platform.

Before switching over to explore sustainable development issues, Vishwa had covered internal security and investigative agencies for more than a decade.Read More Belém, Brazil – On the first day of COP30, the UN climate secretariat (UNFCCC) has released an update to its 2025 Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) Synthesis Report, showing that global emissions are finally beginning... A total of 113 Parties to the Paris Agreement have now submitted new or updated climate plans (NDCs) between January 2024 and November 2025. Together, these countries represent about 69% of global greenhouse gas emissions in 2019. “Global emissions are finally nearing their peak, a long-awaited turning point, but we are still moving far too slowly. Current plans will only cut emissions by about 12% by 2035, when we need five times that to keep global temperature rise to 1.5°C.

This is the moment to act – every second of delay locks in more climate damage. COP30 must treat these pledges as the ceiling, not the floor, and respond with a plan to bridge this perilous shortfall through a rapid, equitable transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy,” said Andreas... With emissions projected to fall by 12%, a decline in fossil fuel demand is expected. This underscores the need for a planned and orderly transition to prevent stranded assets and minimize social fallout. We need a fast, fair, and funded phase-out of fossil fuels to renewable energy to close the gap between the current country pledges and what’s needed to prevent the worst impacts of climate change. Original UNFCCC NDC Synthesis Report 2025 released on 28th October 2025

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