Climate Action Tracker: Impact of government climate action has flat-lined over past three years

Stuart Stone
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Annual analysis of global climate action warns governments are 'failing to bend the curve' as the world edges ever closer to dangerous temperature thresholds

The combined global effect of government action to tackle climate change has flat-lined over the last three years, the Climate Action Tracker initiative has today warned as it published its annual update...

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