As the deadline for submitting updated carbon reduction targets passed on Monday, the majority of nations – including major emitters such as China, India, and the EU – missed the cut-off point,

Nearly every nation on the planet missed a UN deadline Monday to submit new targets for reducing their carbon emissions. Global emissions need to almost halve by the end of the decade to limit

Nearly 200 nations faced a Monday deadline to file what the United Nations’ climate chief calls “among the most important policy documents governments will produce this century."

Douglas McIntyre, Editor-in-Chief at Climate Crisis, reports that most major nations expected to submit their annual climate action plans to the UN will miss the deadline. These plans, a key component of the Paris Accords,