On the heels of a report that says Canada will fail to meet its industrial greenhouse gas emission reduction targets in its ostensible fight against climate change comes a new United Nations report that says the same is true for global emissions.

The UN estimates global emissions will decrease by 17% compared to 1990 levels by 2035, far short of the 60% needed to avoid what it says would be catastrophic global warming, meaning an average global temperature increase of more than 1.5 C to 2 C.

But even the UN’s 17% figure is hopelessly optimistic because it includes emission cuts submitted by former U.S. president Joe Biden, while U.S. President Donald Trump has pledged to pull America out of the UN’s decade-old Paris climate agreement on which the calculations are based.

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