Countries urgently need to ramp up emissions cuts to meet climate targets

New U.N. report urges much deeper cuts ahead of 2020 climate talks

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Signers to the 2015 Paris climate treaty agreed to lower greenhouse gas emissions to keep global warming to well below 2 degrees Celsius. But nations’ current pledged cuts are nowhere near enough to make that target, a U.N. report says.

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The world is way behind on its commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions — and nations need to act immediately if they want to stave off the worst effects of climate change, an international study finds.