WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump once again withdrew the United States from the Paris climate deal on Monday (Jan 20), removing the world's biggest historic emitter from global efforts to fight climate change for the second time in a decade. The move places the United States alongside Iran, Libya and Yem
    • marcos@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      18 hours ago

      Hum… Does your link state somewhere that any country kept up with their promises? Because I can’t find it.

      Overall, it says this:

      As of 31 March 2020, 186 parties (185 countries plus the European Union) had communicated their first NDCs to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Secretariat. A report by the UN stated in 2020 that: “the world is way off track in meeting this target at the current level of nationally determined contributions.”[26]

      What means that the world at large is well behind the targets. But all country specific data I’ve found is of countries behind the target.

        • marcos@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          13 hours ago

          Oh, so there exist some countries.

          It’s too bad those are all not the problem, though. (And Russia exports fuels instead of burning them, so the measurement doesn’t count them.) But yes, I was wrong.