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Climate change: UN warning over nations' climate plans - BBC News
Sep 17, 2021 1 min, 9 secs

Despite all the promises to take action, the world is still on course to heat up to dangerous levels.

Its experts have studied the climate plans of more than 100 countries and concluded that we're heading in the wrong direction.

Under the rules of the Paris Agreement on climate change, countries are meant to update their carbon reduction plans every five years.

Alok Sharma, the British minister who will chair the COP26 conference, said nations that had ambitious climate plans were "already bending the curve of emissions downwards".

"But without action from all countries, especially the biggest economies, these efforts risk being in vain.".

A study by Climate Action Tracker found that of the G20 group of leading industrial nations, only a handful including the UK and the US have strengthened their targets to cut emissions.

For the poorest countries - most vulnerable to rising sea levels and new extremes of heat and drought - seeing a rapid fall in the gases heating the planet is a priority.

Sonam P Wangdi, chair of the Least Developed Countries group, said: "G20 countries must take the lead in quickly cutting emissions to mitigate climate change.

There are hopes that China may revise its climate plans ahead of the Glasgow conference?

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