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Countries’ plans to produce more fossil fuel is “dangerously out of sync” with limits set out in the Paris Agreement to reduce carbon emissions, warns a new United Nations report. The report titled the Production Gap measured the difference between governments’ planned production of fossil fuels and what would keep global temperatures from rising above […]

Says emissions must go down nearly 50pc by 2030, to net-zero by mid-century to limit warming to 1.5°C above preindustrial levels.