UN Official: India, Brazil, Other Paris Pledges May Bring Total Covered to 80 Percent

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India, Brazil and other developing nations still have not made offers ahead of talks toward a global climate agreement, but their pledges won't fundamentally alter the need for far greater future action, the United Nations' top climate official told Bloomberg BNA Sept. 22. Christiana Figueres, who heads the UN climate secretariat that oversees the talks, said offers now on the table from nearly all major emitters-including the U.S. and China-cover about 70 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. But the yet-to-be submitted offers from India, Brazil, Indonesia and South Africa are unlikely to raise the global total beyond 80 percent, Figueres said in an interview.