The world is running out of time to prepare for worsening climate impacts, as global adaptation efforts continue to lag dangerously behind the growing scale of the crisis, warns the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in its Adaptation Gap Report 2025: Running on Empty.
The latest 2025 NDC Synthesis Report, released ahead of COP 30 in Belem, paints a mixed picture of global climate ambition. And while nations are showing unprecedented commitment to cutting greenhouse gas emissions and embedding climate action into national policy, the pace of progress remains well short of the Paris Agreement’s 1.5 deg C target.
Two very different decisions, one in Oxford, the other in Washington, are raising alarm over the shrinking space for open climate debate.
