G20 pledge climate action but make few commitments

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Source: BBC

G20 pledge climate action but make few commitments

31 October 2021

The leaders of the world's richest economies have agreed to pursue efforts to limit global warming with "meaningful and effective actions".

But exactly how this will be achieved was not revealed in the leaders' communiqué at the G20 summit in Rome.

Host nation Italy had hoped that firm targets would be set before the COP26 summit in Glasgow, which has now begun.

The G20 group, made up of 19 countries and the European Union, accounts for 80% of the world's emissions.

The communiqué, or official statement released by the leaders, also makes no reference to achieving net zero by 2050, which many countries have already pledged to do and climate scientists say is critical to avoiding a climate catastrophe.

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Leaders posed for a picture by the famed Trevi Fountain on Sunday morning (Getty Images)