WASHINGTON, D.C. --Today, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) released its annual emissions gap report, detailing how the world’s countries are not doing enough to curb carbon emissions. According to the report, global emissions continued to rise in 2017, and it is unlikely that they will peak by 2020, despite the critical need to reduce emissions in order to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement and keep global temperature rise well below 2 degrees Celsius.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released its major report on the effects climate change is and will have on the world if immediate action is not taken. The report - based on three years of scientific research - projects that catastrophic effects of the climate crisis such as food shortages and droughts could occur by 2040, within the lifetime of much of the world’s population.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — For the second year in a row, the number of coal-fired power plants under development worldwide dropped steeply in 2017, led by major declines in China and India, according to a new report released today by Greenpeace, the Sierra Club, and CoalSwarm.