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Scientists Urge Stronger Paris Agreement Pledges to Curb Climate Change

Reuters

   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.

   "Governments are moving in the right direction, but nowhere near
   enough, so hopefully they will be willing to take on much stronger
   commitments" in next month's United Nation's climate summit in Spain,
   said Robert Watson, lead author of the report by the nonprofit
   Universal Ecological Fund.

   The report ranked nearly 75%, or 136, of the pledges as insufficient,
   including ones by major carbon emitters China, the United States, and
   India. A dozen, by countries including Australia, Japan and Brazil,
   were judged only partially sufficient.

   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.

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