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Nations' plans for cutting carbon emissions are dangerously off-track

Global greenhouse gas emissions, rather than fall, rose in 2017 by 0.7 gigatons to 53.5 gigatons, after three years of decreases.

Pulp and paper mill smokestack in New Brunswick, Canada
Pulp and paper mill smokestack in New Brunswick, Canada (AN/Tony Webster)

The gap is widening between the goal of limiting global warming to no more than 2° Celsius this century and what is realistically achievable, U.N. Environment warned.

Almost 200 nations signed onto the landmark 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change that committed the world to “holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2° above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5° above pre-industrial levels.”

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