Greenpeace is calling for this year's UN climate summit COP30 to deliver an emphatic response to the glaring ambition gap exposed in the UNFCCC's synthesis report aggregating 2035 climate action plans.
The UNFCCC's Synthesis report found that the submitted NDCs (which only represent 33% of global emissions), while progressing from previous NDCs, would lead to emission reductions of 11%-24% by 2035 compared to 2019.[1]
This is far short from the 60% reduction (for the same period) that countries committed to in the outcomes of the first Global Stocktake, agreed at COP28 in Dubai in 2023.
The UNFCCC also said its report was based on the 64 new NDCs submitted before 30 September 2025, covering about 30% of total global emissions in 2019. It was not possible to draw wide-ranging global-level conclusions from such a limited data set, the UNFCCC added.
Jasper Inventor, Deputy International Programme Director Greenpeace International said: "This report is a fire alarm for the planet, but governments keep hitting the snooze button and falling back to sleep. COP30 must be the moment the world wakes up and acts before the house burns down."
"A decisive breakthrough at COP30 must now kick-off a new phase of accelerated and transformative climate action. The UN Secretary-General has already warned that a temporary overshoot of the 1.5°C limit is looming, but the hard reality is that national climate action plans are still lacking in ambition. Many of these plans are either late or, if submitted, consistently falling short on what is needed."[2]
"A key driver of this repeated failure is the persistent lack of ambition from most developed countries. At the same time, some of the world's major developing country emitters have set targets that fall well short of what is needed, further widening the global ambition gap."
"At COP30, a global response plan is needed. Rising emissions, increasingly extreme weather and looming tipping points are our current reality. At COP30, the People's COP, it's time for safety and people to be placed first and foremost."
