Here’s what to watch at Monday’s U.N. climate summit as governments, businesses and activists seek to move past a no-show United States
The U.S. record on reductions certainly isn’t anything that climate activists swoon over. Despite an overall downward trend during the past 12 years, the U.S. is nowhere near meeting Obama’s climate targets: The country’s carbon dioxide emissions are 10.4 percent below 2005 levels, making it practically impossible to achieve the Obama administration’s goal of a 17 percent cut by 2020 and 26-28 percent by 2025.
“The bad news is [the goals] weren’t tough enough,” says Mauro Petriccione, the EU’s top climate bureaucrat. And the bloc isn’t coming to Monday’s summit with any pledges of further reductions. poster="http://v.politico.com/images/1155968404/201909/2144/1155968404_6088166441001_6088168345001-vs.jpg?pubId=1155968404"
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