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G-7 Nations Pledge Net-Zero Target for 2050

Emissions (2018) including land-use change and forestry and EU, national and state-level targets. G-7 and G-20 totals include the EUWRI CAIT, governments, BloombergNEF

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By Victoria Cuming

June 15, 2021 at 3:15 PM UTC

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The Group-of-Seven countries, which account for around a fifth of global emissions, agreed to a net-zero target for 2050, at the June 11-13 summit in the U.K. As a result, nations with some 41% of worldwide emissions have implemented such a goal, and another 26% have one under discussion or in the process of being legislated.

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