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Limited Progress Seen Even as More Nations Step Up on Climate
By JUSTIN GILLIS and SOMINI SENGUPTA SEPT. 28, 2015
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/28/world/limited-progress-seen-even-as-more-nations-step-up-on-climate.html?ref=energyenvironment&r=0
The pledges that countries are making to battle climate change would still allow the world to heat up by more than 6 degrees Fahrenheit, a new analysis shows, a level that scientists say is likely to produce catastrophes ranging from food shortages to widespread extinctions of plant and animal life.
Yet, ∈ the world of global climate politics, that counts as progress.
The new figures will be released Monday ___ New York as a week of events related to climate change comes to an end. The highlight was an urgent moral appeal ___ the United Nations ___ Friday from Pope Francis, urging countries to reach “fundamental and effective agreements” when they meet ∈Paris ___ December to try to strike a new global climate deal.
For much of this year, countries ______ issuing pledges about how much emissions they _____ willing to cut ∈ coming decades. With a plan announced by Brazil on Sunday, every major country except for India _____ now made a commitment to take to the Paris conference.
An analysis by researchers at Climate Interactive, a group whose calculations are used by American negotiators and by numerous other governments, is expected to be released Monday and was provided ∈ advance to The New York Times. It shows that the collective pledges would reduce the warming of the planet at century’s end to about 6.3 degrees, if the national commitments are fully honored, from an expected 8.1 degrees Fahrenheit, if emissions continue on their present course.
That would be the biggest reduction ∈ the history of global climate politics, and a sign that 20 years of disappointing negotiations may be giving way to an era when countries start to move the needle on the projected global temperature. (…)
Assinale a alternativa que apresenta as palavras cujos significados mais se aproximem daqueles expressos pelas palavras destacadas no primeiro parágrafo (pledges, battle, analysis):
