UN Climate Change News, 11 November 2025 - An update to key findings of UN Climate Change's 2025 NDC Synthesis Report shows that the global emissions curve is beginning to bend downwards.
According to the new analysis detailed in a letter to Parties and Observers from UN Climate Change Executive Secretary Simon Stiell, global greenhouse gas emissions are projected to fall by 12% in 2035 compared to 2019 levels, based on new nationally determined contributions (NDCs) from 113 Parties under the Paris Agreement up to 9 November - including many received in recent weeks.
Speaking at a press conference on the opening day of COP30 in Belem yesterday, Stiell welcomed the progress but emphasized the need for much faster action.
"That's a big deal," he said. "Every fraction of a degree of heating avoided will save millions of lives and billions of dollars in economic damage."
Stiell stressed that the world is moving in the right direction, but the pace and scale of efforts to cut emissions and build resilience must now increase dramatically to keep the 1.5°C goal within reach.
"We must accelerate in the Amazon," he said.
The NDC Synthesis Report, released on October, provided valuable new data, both about progress being made and the major challenges still remaining, although this data is limited to 64 national climate plans formally submitted by September 30.
