Pandemic delays leave many nations facing climate action ...
By Megan Rowling BARCELONA, Jan 8 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Less than half of countries that committed to strengthening their climate action targets in 2020 did so by the end of last year, as the pandemic slowed climate diplomacy and efforts to update national plans, a developing-nation group said on Friday. A tracker run by the Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF) showed 73 nations submitted revised climate plans to the United Nations, meeting a 2020 deadline under the Paris Agreement to tackle global warming. That was about 45% of the 160 nations that had earlier said they intended to submi...
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