“…As of 2021, 6 years post-Paris, NDCs are insufficient to stay below a 2°C GMT rise (Climate Action Tracker, 2021; UNFCCC, 2021) and 1.5°C will no longer be achievable without substantially strengthened mitigation efforts that would around halve global emission by 2030 (Schleussner et al, 2016;Warszawski et al, 2021;Zhou et al, 2021). Content analysis of NDCs show a continuation of the "divergent climate priorities that have existed within the UNFCCC for decades" (Stephenson et al, 2019(Stephenson et al, , p. 1258. NDCs from AOSIS nations emphasize vulnerability and equity, while those of historic high-emitters including the US and EU nations demonstrate a lack of ambition on mitigation and a deprioritization of climate action in favor of economic priorities (Mills-Novoa & Liverman, 2019;Stephenson et al, 2019).…”