{"id":6674,"date":"2025-11-19T09:30:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T09:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/?p=6674"},"modified":"2025-11-19T09:30:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T09:30:21","slug":"keeping-promises-on-renewables-efficiency-and-methane-could-avert-nearly-1c-of-warming-cop30-analysis-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/?p=6674","title":{"rendered":"Keeping Promises on Renewables, Efficiency and Methane Could Avert Nearly 1C of Warming, Cop30 Analysis Finds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Delivering three headline climate pledges\u2014tripling global renewables, doubling energy efficiency by 2030, and slashing methane\u2014would shave <strong>0.9\u00b0C<\/strong> off projected temperature rise this century and put the world within striking distance of the Paris Agreement\u2019s <strong>1.5\u00b0C<\/strong> goal, according to new analysis unveiled at the Cop30 summit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The assessment, by the <strong>Climate Action Tracker<\/strong> coalition (including Climate Analytics and NewClimate Institute), estimates that achieving these measures across <strong>G20<\/strong> economies alone would cut emissions by <strong>18 billion tonnes in 2035<\/strong>, reducing the rate of warming by <strong>one-third in the next decade<\/strong> and <strong>by half by 2040<\/strong>. \u201cIf governments achieve this by 2035, it would be a gamechanger,\u201d said <strong>Bill Hare<\/strong>, CEO of Climate Analytics, who said the pathway would lower end-century warming from about <strong>2.6\u00b0C to ~1.7\u00b0C<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The three targets are not new: countries agreed at <strong>Cop28 (Dubai, 2023)<\/strong> to <strong>triple renewable capacity<\/strong> and <strong>double efficiency<\/strong> improvements by 2030, while more than <strong>160 governments<\/strong> signed the <strong>Global Methane Pledge<\/strong> to cut emissions <strong>30% by 2030<\/strong> from 2020 levels. Implementation, however, remains uneven. Renewable investment surged to <strong>more than $2 trillion<\/strong> last year\u2014over twice fossil fuel spending\u2014with <strong>China<\/strong> racing ahead and <strong>India<\/strong> hitting some goals early. But methane emissions continue to rise amid <strong>underreporting<\/strong> and slow action to curb leaks from oil, gas and abandoned coal sites in major emitters, including <strong>Russia, China and the U.S.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At Cop30, governments are grappling with a response to current national plans that still chart a course to roughly <strong>2.5\u00b0C<\/strong>. A fresh draft decision from the Brazilian presidency is expected to address the promised <strong>\u201ctransition away from fossil fuels,\u201d<\/strong> a phrase secured in last year\u2019s global stocktake but fiercely opposed by petro-states. <strong>Niklas H\u00f6hne<\/strong> of NewClimate Institute argued that delivering on renewables, efficiency and methane \u201cwould actually trigger the transition away from fossil fuels,\u201d with numbers showing steep declines in fossil use by the <strong>mid-2030s<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hare framed the challenge as political rather than technical: governments must resist <strong>fossil-fuel industry pressure<\/strong> and wealthier nations must <strong>accelerate finance<\/strong> for those that need it. He added that halting <strong>deforestation<\/strong>\u2014critical to preserving carbon sinks\u2014must complement the energy and methane push.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the Cop30 theme pivoting to <strong>implementation<\/strong>, the analysis offers a rare dose of optimism: the fastest wins on clean power, smarter energy use and methane could decisively bend the warming curve\u2014if countries now move from pledges on paper to results on the ground.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delivering three headline climate pledges\u2014tripling global renewables, doubling energy efficiency by 2030, and slashing methane\u2014would shave 0.9\u00b0C off projected temperature rise this century and put the world within striking distance of the Paris Agreement\u2019s 1.5\u00b0C goal, according to new analysis unveiled at the Cop30 summit. The assessment, by the Climate Action Tracker coalition (including Climate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6680,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-5"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6683,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6674\/revisions\/6683"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}