This is how much the Earth will warm with countries' new climate plans, UN says

All countries of the world had homework this year: submit new-and-improved plans to fight climate change.

But the plans they handed in "have barely moved the needle" on reducing Earth's future warming, a new United Nations report finds .

And a good chunk of that progress is counteracted by the withdrawal of the United States from the effort, the report adds.

The newest climate-fighting plans — mandated every five years by the 2015 Paris Agreement — shave about 3/10ths of a degree Celsius (nearly 6/10ths of a degree Fahrenheit) off a warming future compared with the projections a year ago. Only one-third of countries that signed the agreement, covering 63 per cent of emissions, submitted new climate plans .

Canada submitted its latest plan in February. It has since been rated "high