The world is not on the path to limit the increase in temperature to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels. Its movement towards an irreversible change in the global climate does not mean the world has failed to make progress, however. On the contrary, there has been much improvement. Yet it is not enough.
The question to be addressed at the COP29 climate conference in Baku this month is how to change this unhappy trajectory.
“The last decade has seen the share of fossil fuels in the global energy mix gradually come down from 82 per cent in 2013 to 80 per cent in 2023,” says the International Energy Agency in its World Energy Outlook 2024 report.