More needed in Paris if hopes of slowing global warming are to be realised

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opes of slowing the world’s collapse into the embrace of catastrophic global warming needs more, much more than what has being been promised for the Paris climate summit later this year.

A Guardian story reports: “Pledges made by countries to cut their carbon emissions ahead of a crunch climate summit in Paris later this year will delay the world passing the threshold for dangerous global warming by just two years, according to a new analysis.

“The research, led by a former lead author on the UN’s climate science panel, found that the submissions so far by 36 countries to the UN would likely delay the world passing the threshold until 2038, rather than 2036 without the carbon cuts.

“However, more than 150 countries have yet to submit their carbon pledges despite a deadline of the end of March. While most are relatively small emitters, commitments by big polluters such as India could significantly change the picture,” the news site reports.

Read The Guardian story - “Paris climate pledges 'will only delay dangerous warming by two years'”.