More coordinated effort, investment needed to achieve climate goals

Singapore

THE message is clear: the world is making an effort to save the planet, but a lot more work - and a lot more coordination of such efforts is going to be required if climate goals are to be attained.

The United Nations' (UN) Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said earlier this month that global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions need to peak before 2025 at the latest and be reduced by 43 per cent by 2030, if the world hopes to keep global warming to around 1.5 deg C.