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The world's shipping nations also agreed to interim goals to cut greenhouse gas emissions by at least 20%, aiming for 30% by 2030, and by at least 70%, aiming for 80%, by 2040.
LONDON -- In a clubby mid-rise on the River Thames, its lobby filled with models of container ships and oil tankers, a rather obscure United Nations group is gathering this week to make a momentous decision that will influence whether the world can meet its promise to limit perilous global warming.
Credit: Share This story was originally published by InsideClimate News. For decades, through political tumult and changing global allegiances, the Arctic Council went about its business, producing groundbreaking scientific reports and hammering out binding agreements to ensure cooperation among its members and address climate change. Even when diplomacy failed in other venues, the council, an international organization consisting of the eight countries that ring the Arctic Circle, was able to proceed with its work. That ended, members of the council say, with the arrival of the Trum...