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How Do Countries’ New Emissions-Reduction Plans Stack Up?
Originally published on WRI’s Resource Institute Blog. By Taryn Fransen and David Waskow A new UN report finds that countries’ emissions-reduction commitments…

Originally published on WRIs Resource Institute Blog.By Taryn Fransen and David Waskow
A new UN report finds that countries emissions-reduction commitments under the Paris Agreement are falling far short of whats needed to prevent the most dangerous impacts of climate change.
It is imperative that countries that have not yet submitted their plans deliver much greater ambition this year and that countries that already put forward weak offers in 2020 revise their commitments upward.
In the 2015 Agreement,…

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