US climate envoy John Kerry has said that the current commitments on cutting carbon emissions meant the world had a 60 per cent chance of capping a rise in the average temperature at 1.5°C, Arab News reported.

Speaking at a breakfast event with world mayors at global climate talks in Glasgow, he said, with the most recent commitments made at COP26, around 65 per cent of the global GDP was now covered by implementable climate change plans.

“But that means 35 per cent isn’t. And we can’t do it without that 35 per cent.”