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ALT UAE’s emissions policies fall short of 1.5C warming target. Chart showing emissions (million tonnes of CO2 equivalent per year, excluding LULUCF*). By 2030 . The first chart shows these emissions levels against a backdrop of modelled predicted pathways. Each pathway corresponds to a level of global warming from 4C, down to the 1.5C target from the Paris climate agreement. In this we can see their current commitments and target have been classified as insufficient, meaning they would result in between 3C and 2C warming. The second chart shows the same emissions levels but this time against a backdrop of what is termed ‘fair share’. On this count we can see that the UAE is rated as critically insufficient. This means that if all governments’ emissions targets were in the same range as the UAE, warming would exceed 4C.