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Warning that the Paris Climate Agreement 2015 was faltering, a United Nations report said that pledges by countries across the world to bring down greenhouse gas emissions are not enough and “only bring a third of the reduction in emissions required by 2030 to meet climate targets”. The report stressed that governments and non-state actors need to deliver an urgent increase in ambition to ensure that the Paris Agreement goals can still be met. It warned that without enhanced ambition, the likely global average temperature increase will be in the range of 3-3.2 degree Celsius by the end of the century. As per the report, total global greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 are likely to be about 55 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent, much higher than the limit of 42 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent required to limit the rise in global temperature to well below 2 degrees Celsius over pre-industrial times by the end of this century.