SINGAPORE - With just two weeks left until the world meets in Brazil on Nov 10 for UN climate summit COP30, less than a third of countries party to the Paris Agreement have submitted their national targets for curbing planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions by 2035. This comes despite scientists declaring in October that record temperatures fuelled by such emissions have pushed the earth’s ecosystems to its Under the Paris Agreement, nearly 200 countries that signed the world’s climate pact were asked by the UN to submit their climate targets for 2035 by February. Singapore did so on time, but as at Oct 24, only 63 out of the 196 parties had done so. Ahead of COP30, which will take place over two weeks in the Amazonian city of Belem, The Straits Times unpacks the implications of the absent plans, and talks to experts on the significance of Singapore’s timely submission.   https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/environment/why-did-singapore-submit-its-2035-climate-targets-on-time-when-so-many-missed-the-cop30-deadline   (ICE SINGAPORE)

Fonte notizia: The Straits Times, 27 October 2025