US pledges carbon-emissions cut of 26–28% by 2025
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.028758
BBC : As a follow-up to a previous agreement with China and as a step toward the United Nations’ climate plan to be agreed on in Paris later this year, the US has announced a plan to cut its carbon emissions by more than one quarter by 2025. The US announcement increases the current goal of a 17% cut of 2005 emissions levels by 2020. As part of the UN’s effort to reach a climate plan in December, wealthy nations were expected to submit their own goals by 31 March. The European Union had previously announced its goal of a 40% reduction from 1990 levels by 2030. China has not formally announced its plans, and several other countries, such as Canada, also failed to announce plans by the target date.
