"This growth in global CO2 emissions puts the goals set out in the Paris Agreement in jeopardy," lead author Corinne Le Quere, director of the Tyndall Centre of Climate Change Research at the University of East Anglia, said in a statement. "Emissions will continue to rise, rhetoric is increasing but ambition is not -- we are completely off course," said co-author Glen Peters, research director at the Centre for International Climate and Environmental Research in Oslo. "Mohamed Adow, international climate lead for Christian Aid, said poor people in developing countries most exposed to climate hazards simply cannot wait. "If this is the most important issue of our time, as leaders repeatedly say, then why aren’t they acting accordingly -- and showing up for the climate talks? ", he said.Nearly 200 nations are huddled at UN climate talks in Katowice, Poland until December 14.

Source: Egypt Today December 05, 2018 18:11 UTC