The pace of progress in cutting global greenhouse gas emissions is recklessly slow, experts have warned.
On current projections, global emissions of CO2 will plateau at around 50 billion tonnes during the coming decades, putting the world on course for changes to the climate that are way beyond the experience of modern civilisation.
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