Countries plan more fuels, not less

Countries are still planning to increase production of fossil fuels to levels incompatible with global commitments on climate change, according to new research published yesterday.

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The report compiled by more than 50 international researchers compares fossil fuel expansion against the goals of the Paris climate accord and found a chasm between promises and reality.

Countries are “now collectively planning even more fossil fuel production than two years ago”, concluded the latest Production Gap report.

“There continues to be a disconnect between climate ambitions and what countries are actually planning to do with fossil fuel production,” study coauthor Derik Broekhoff, from the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), told reporters.