Every single state has to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions – this is what the Paris Agreement wants. But if you put all the signatory states together, emissions will not decrease by 2030, but actually increase.
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Michael Bauchmüller and Thomas Hummel
António Guterres doesn’t ignore it for long. “We are here to raise the alarm,” said the Secretary General of the United Nations. There is a gigantic, global gap that worries Guterres: between what would be necessary in terms of climate protection and what the states have wanted to do so far. “We are still on the way to a climate catastrophe,” says the 72-year-old Portuguese.