GENEVA (AN) — A new United Nations report cautions the world must begin cutting greenhouse gas emissions by at least 7.6% a year starting in 2020 to meet global targets for avoiding the worst effects of planetary overheating.
U.N. Environment warned — as it did in a similar report last year — the gap is dangerously wide between the goal of limiting global warming to no more than 2 degrees Celsius this century and the reality of what is politically achievable.