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CLIMATE OBJECTIVE NEUTRALITE CARBONNE BY 2020
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Under the Paris Climate Agreement, the signatory countries pledged to announce new efforts by 2020 to strengthen their national plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, in order to contain the global rise in temperatures. 
"There are 80 countries that have already told us to be ready" to rev up their ambitions, Luis Alfonso de Alba told reporters. "But that does not mean they want to do it the scale we need," he said. Target: carbon neutrality by 2050 The United Nations is pushing governments to reduce greenhouse gases by 45% over the next ten years and achieve carbon neutrality by 2050. "We need to dramatically increase our ambition," said the UN climate envoy. "We are not talking about a gradual approach, but a drastic increase. ". A total of 197 parties signed the Paris Agreement in 2015 following COP21, and 186 have since ratified it. The United States of Donald Trump has decided to withdraw from the agreement, but this withdrawal will only be effective in 2020. Luis Alfonso de Alba is organizing next September an ambitious summit on the environment in New York. He was in Washington last week to meet with US officials. "Very positive" meetings, according to the UN envoy. The United States is the second largest polluter in the world after China. |
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