Emissions should drop 7.6 percent per year, says the UN. Before a climate conference in Madrid next week, a new United Nations report said that countries have failed to stop the increase in greenhouse gas emissions that heat the planet despite repeated warnings from scientists. However, the richest country of all, the United States, is withdrawing from the 2015 Paris climate agreement. And China, the world's largest polluters, were among those who expanded their carbon footprints last year. By the numbers: Greenhouse gas emissions have grown 1.5 percent annually over the past decade, according to the report, and emissions should decrease 7.6 percent every year until 2030 to stay within relatively safe limits.

Source: New York Times November 27, 2019 05:26 UTC