COP26 report card: How the world's largest emitters are faring on climate goals
ABC News
As countries continue make and increase climate pledges are actions being taken to actually meet those goals?
Climate change is finally at the forefront of global agendas after a year-long delay and myriad promises made since the last major summit.
World leaders are converging in Glasgow, Scotland, for COP 26, the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference, six years after creating the Paris Agreement that potentially set the stage for major action to mitigate global warming.
The agreement reached in Paris aimed to limit global warming to well below 2 degrees Celsius, a value, climate scientists calculated, that would be disastrous to exceed. More ambitious efforts aimed to limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
But as countries continue to review -- and make more ambitious -- the Nationally Determined Contributions submitted in Paris, are they actually doing enough to reach their goals?
