The world is slated to fall far short of the goals of the Paris Agreement on climate change under the current pledges of countries that are signatories to the deal, the United Nations Environment Programme reported Tuesday. The picture is even bleaker when current policies are taken into consideration, the report said. "Our collective failure to act strongly and early means that we must now implement deep and urgent cuts," United Nations Environment Programme Executive Director Inger Andersen said in a letter attached to the report. She argued that "major transformation of our societies and economies we need can still happen," and noted that some countries, local governments and private sector companies are stepping up.
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