Guest essay by Eric Worrall

Lots of ambitious promises of action by 2050, but not a lot of detailed plans.

World is in danger of missing Paris climate target, summit is warned

Minister tells more than 80 world leaders that not enough is being done

Fiona Harvey
Sun 13 Dec 2020 06.30 AEDT

The world is still not on track to fulfil the 2015 Paris climate agreement, the UK?s business secretary Alok Sharma warned, after asummit of more than 70 world leaders on the climate crisisended with few new commitments on greenhouse gas emissions.

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He said progress had been made at theClimate Ambition Summit, co-hosted by the UK, the UN and France, markingfive years since the Paris accord was adopted. More than 80 world leaders including China?s Xi Jinping, the European commission president Ursula von…