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MicroClimates: The world can t get their 2030 climate pledges together. San Mateo County did FacebookTwitterEmail The view from Cooking Papa restaurant in Foster City, California, on Thursday, Feb. 1, 2018. Color and crop adjusted from original for Hero Image quality.Gabrielle Lurie / Getty Images Welcome to MicroClimates, The Chronicle’s local climate change newsletter. If someone forwarded you this email, you can sign up here. A ‘red alert’ from the U.N. Not good enough, try again. That’s what the United Nations told countries last week about updated pledges to cut emissions as part of the Paris Climate Agreement. Half of the countries party to the accords and many of the top polluting nations including the U.S. missed the deadline to submit tougher goals for 2030. The Biden administration says it will update America’s pledge by April but the commitments on file right now are nowhere near what’s required to limit warming. ....