Cut fossil fuels production to ward off ‘catastrophic’ warming: UN-backed report

Countries must decrease production of fossil fuels by 6 per cent per year, between 2020 and 2030, if the world is to avert "catastrophic” global temperature rise, a new UN-backed report has found.

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