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The writer is a former caretaker finance minister and served as vice-president at the World Bank
The global community has been meeting every year under the auspices of the United Nations. At the meeting held in Paris in 2015, nations decided that they would not set national targets aimed at reducing emissions that affect the global climate. Instead, it was decided in the meeting that nations would report on the actions they had taken in the preceding year aimed at maintaining — if possible, reducing — global temperatures. Reducing the burning of fossil fuels was the most effective way of addressing climate change. The Paris summit set the target of 1.5 degrees Celsius above the level reached during the Industrial Revolution in the 1890s.
The annual meetings are held at different places around the globe. Since these meetings attract a great deal of public attention with activists agitating for more climate-related action by the host country, the United Nations aut
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