The United Nations has warned that global inaction and inadequate ambition on greenhouse-gas reductions are keeping climate risks at dangerously high levels, and that current policies are insufficient to prevent increasingly severe heatwaves, floods and food insecurity. The statement accompanies new UN analysis highlighting gaps between national climate commitments and the emissions reductions scientists say are needed to limit warming.
UN officials stressed that adaptation funding for vulnerable countries remains far below what is required to protect communities already experiencing climate shocks, and called for accelerated finance flows, technology transfers and support for resilience measures. The message underlined a twofold problem: failure to cut emissions fast enough and failure to mobilise funds to protect the most exposed people and ecosystems.
Global negotiators are being urged to translate pledges into concrete timelines and to unlock public and private investment in renewable energy, nature-based solutions, and disaster-risk reduction — particularly in low-income countries that have contributed least to the climate problem yet face the steepest consequences.
