BRUSSELS, July 20 (Reuters) - The United Arab Emirates, host of this year's COP28 UN climate summit, has set out "insufficient" plans to tackle its own contribution to climate change, an independent research group said on Thursday.
The UAE strengthened its climate pledge earlier this month to be more ambitious, and its summit leadership has called on other countries to do the same ahead of the talks in November.
But the country's new pledge would still see its CO2 emissions increase through to 2030, at odds with the sharp decrease needed to curb climate change, according to the Climate Action Tracker research consortium.
Countries agreed under the Paris Agreement to take action to curb climate change to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels, the limit scientists say would avoid its most disastrous impacts.
But this will not prevent the UAE from busting its overall climate goals, if fossil fuel use does not decrease, CAT said.
Persons:
Sultan al, Jaber, Sarah Heck, Kate Abnett, Yousef Saba, Alexandra Hudson
Organizations:
United, CAT, Analytics, Investments, Alexandra Hudson Our, Thomson
Locations:
BRUSSELS, United Arab Emirates, UAE, Paris