Daily US Times: A new analysis of world temperature suggests that the goals of the UN Paris climate agreement are getting “within reach.”

The Climate Action Tracker group looked at new climate promises from China and other countries, along with the carbon plans of US President-elect Joe Biden.

These commitments would mean the rise in world temperature could be held to 2.1C by the end of this century.

Previous estimates indicated up to 3C of heating, which would have disastrous impacts.

But the experts are worried the long-term optimism is not matched by short-term plans to cut carbon emissions.

Researchers from the Climate Action Tracker, for more than a decade, have kept a close eye on what countries’ collective carbon-cutting pledges mean for our warming world.

After the failed Copenhagen summit in 2009, the Climate Action Tracker estimated that global temperatures would rise by 3.5C by the end of this century.

But the creation of the Paris climate agreement in 2015, which was designed to avoid dangerous warming of the Earth, made a considerable impact. As a result of the international deal, countries across the world slowly started to switch away from fossil fuels.

The group concluded in September this year that the world was heading for warming of around 2.7C by 2100.

This figure was still far above the 2C goal contained in the wording of the Paris agreement and nowhere near the more challenging 1.5C target that scientists and experts endorsed as the threshold to destructive warming in 2018.

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