With world leaders gathering in Madrid next week for their annual bargaining session over how to avert a climate catastrophe, the latest assessment issued by the United Nations said Tuesday that greenhouse gas emissions are still rising dangerously. Countries have failed to halt the rise of greenhouse gas emissions, with China and the United States, further increasing their emissions last year. The meetings in Madrid, though not designed to ramp up pledges by world leaders to cut their countries’ emissions (that deadline is still a year away), are intended to hammer out the last remaining rules on how to implement the 2015 Paris climate accord, in which every country pledged to rein in greenhouse gases, with each setting its own targets and timetables.
By Somini Sengupta. New York Times. November 26, 2019.
