carbon emissions — by 2030, and to ensure that
poor countries get the $100 billion in funding they
need each year to respond to climate change.
He said the U.N. climate meeting in Glasgow this
fall, delayed by a year due to the coronavirus
pandemic, also needs to finalize rules for
international carbon markets that economists
say would give companies greater incentives to
cut emissions.
One major holdout in those negotiations, Brazil,
pushed backed against calls for it to give up vast
piles of emissions credits it amassed under rules
that experts say weren’t stringent enough.
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