Greenhouse gas cuts not enough, says UN
Cuts announced by the nations responsible for most of the world's greenhouse gas emissions will fall short of the level needed to limit disastrous climate change, the UN said today.
Janos Pasztor, top climate adviser to Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, said the commitments, which largely reaffirm previous pledges, make it highly unlikely the world can meet the goal set at the Copenhagen climate conference of preventing temperatures from rising more than 2C above pre-industrial levels.
