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01-11-2021, 08:36 AM
Pledge to stop funding coal-fired plants aboard by year end but no dates for phasing out coal.
Leaders of the Group of 20 major economies agreed on a final statement yesterday that urges "meaningful and effective" action to limit global warming at 1.5 deg C but offers few concrete commitments.
The result of days of tough negotiations among diplomats leaves huge work to be done at a broader United Nations climate summit which began yesterday in Scotland, where most of the G-20 leaders were headed from Rome.
The G-20 bloc, which includes Brazil, China, India, Germany and the United States, accounts for an estimated 80 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions..
Part of an article found in today's The New Paper
Leaders of the Group of 20 major economies agreed on a final statement yesterday that urges "meaningful and effective" action to limit global warming at 1.5 deg C but offers few concrete commitments.
The result of days of tough negotiations among diplomats leaves huge work to be done at a broader United Nations climate summit which began yesterday in Scotland, where most of the G-20 leaders were headed from Rome.
The G-20 bloc, which includes Brazil, China, India, Germany and the United States, accounts for an estimated 80 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions..
Part of an article found in today's The New Paper
