Only 110 countries, 58% of member countries of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), have presented plans for emission reductions, or NDC ("Nationally Determined Contributions") at the July 30 deadline. Big “carbon sinners,” including China, Saudi Arabia, India and South Africa, are missing; and, none of the G20 countries has presented ambitious plans, the WWF complains. According to the WWF checklist, six of those nations – including Japan, Brazil and Russia – have completely failed, forwarding disappointing NDC; five more G20 countries have not yet forwarded any plan (including Turkey, which has not even ratified the Paris Agreement).
WWF Global Policy Manager for Climate and Energy Fernanda Carvalho objected that the NDCs so far presented “put us on a trajectory towards a 2.4° Celsius global warming, twice the warming we are currently experiencing,” according to environmentalist magazine Rinnovabili.it.
