"A wasted decade." That is how the past decade is called because of insufficient political action on climate change. It means that nations must now do four times the work—or do the same work in one-third of the time—to comply with the climate pact they made in Paris. These conclusions by Niklas Höhne (NewClimate Institute in Cologne and Wageningen University & Research), and international colleagues in a "Comment' in Nature are based on a synthesis of all ten editions of the Emissions Gap Report produced by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
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