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NATIONAL plans to tackle the climate crisis fall far short of what is needed to limit global warming to 1.5°C, the United Nations environmental agency has warned.
A report by the UN Environmental Programme reveals (UNEP) a huge gap between the CO2 emissions cuts pledged by countries worldwide and the reductions needed to limit any rise in global temperature to 1.5°C, the internationally agreed target.
Progress has been “woefully inadequate,” the agency said, meaning that only a “rapid transformation of societies” can avert the worst impacts of the climate change.
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