WASHINGTON: The vast majority of national commitments in the 2015 Paris Agreement are inadequate to prevent the worst effects of global warming, scientists said on Tuesday , naming the world's biggest greenhouse gas emitting countries as among those that must ratchet up their efforts.
Countries at next month's summit in Madrid will hash out some details of the international pact to curb warming. Chile withdrew as host following weeks of riots protesting inequality. Watson, a former chair of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, said the report could be read two ways:"You can read 'My God it's hopeless', or 'My God this is a wake up call.'"Watson estimated that even if all nations meet their existing pledges, the world would be headed for temperature rise of between 3 and 3.5 degrees Celsius, which could lead to more extreme weather, rising sea levels and the loss of plant and animal species.
It ranked the United States as insufficient because President Donald Trump reversed former President Barack Obama's climate policies and yanked Washington out of the pact. The administration, which argues that Paris Agreement would cost US taxpayers too much money, filed official paperwork on Monday to withdraw.
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