"From making green shifts fairer for workers to slashing fossil fuel subsidies, action on climate change needs to ramp up in 2022, analysts say"

"KUALA LUMPUR - From phasing out fossil fuel subsidies to tackling the surging costs of loss and damage caused by climate change impacts, 2022 is likely to see growing pressure for more ambitious action to fight global warming on the ground.

The urgency comes as officials and climate policy analysts warn the most ambitious Paris Agreement target of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7F) is growing harder to reach - despite gaining stronger political backing in 2021.
"2022 is all about shifting into what the (U.N.) secretary-general has called 'emergency mode'," Inger Andersen, executive director of the U.N. Environment Programme (UNEP), told the Thomson Reuters Foundation."

Beh Lih Yi reports for Thomson Reuters Foundation January 5, 2022. [2]