The 2021 Production Gap Report, by leading research institutes and the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), finds that despite increased climate ambitions and net-zero commitments, governments still plan to produce more than double the number of fossil fuels in 2030 than what would be consistent with limiting global warming to 1.5°C.
The report, first launched in 2019, measures the gap between governments’ planned production of coal, oil, and gas and the global production levels consistent with meeting the Paris Agreement temperature limits. Two years later, the 2021 report finds the production gap largely unchanged.
Reacting to the report UN Secretary-General António Guterres said the recent announcements by the world’s largest economies to end international financing of coal are a much-needed step in phasing out fossil fuels.
