Nov 14, 2018 08:09 PM
ENVIRONMENT
World’s Big Economies Set to Miss Climate Change Goals

Couples take wedding photos near the Palace Museum on Wednesday as heavy smog envelopes Beijing. Photo: VCG
The G-20 countries — including China — will fail to meet global warming targets set in the Paris Agreement if current trends continue, a new report says.
The international forum’s members — which include the world’s largest economies — have each set national carbon emissions goals that would lead on average to a long-term global temperature increase of 3.2 C, higher than the 2 C limit set in the 2016 Paris Agreement on climate change, according an annual report published Wednesday by NGO alliance Climate Transparency, ahead of the G-20 summit later this month.
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