Governments are falling far short of the promises they made to cut planet-warming pollution under the Paris climate agreement 10 years ago, the United Nations said in a report Tuesday.
Only a minority of countries have so far updated their commitments to tackling what the countries signing the pact called in 2015 “the urgent threat of climate change.” And the plans they submitted to date would cut global greenhouse gas pollution only modestly compared with levels they had pledged half a decade ago.
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