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Emissions Unfiltered: The Relentless Rise of Global Carbon and the Political Blocking of Climate Action.

A giant hourglass contains sand and globe-shaped balls with world flags, slowly trickling sand onto a mound with the United Nations emblem, surrounded by trees and oil rigs, under a dark stormy sky.

Despite decades of international agreements, national commitments, climate conferences spanning three decades, and increasing climate consciousness among populations worldwide, global emissions continue to rise year after year, and the gap between what we promise and what we actually implement has become not merely a gap but a canyon—a vast chasm of broken commitments, abandoned pledges, and policies that exist on paper while fossil fuel expansion continues unabated in the real world.