All countries of the world had homework this year: submit new-and-improved plans to fight climate change.
But the plans they handed in "have barely moved the needle" on reducing Earth's future warming, a new United Nations report finds.
And a good chunk of that progress is counteracted by the withdrawal of the United States from the effort, the report adds.
The newest climate-fighting plans — mandated every five years by the 2015 Paris Agreement — shave about 3/10ths of a degree Celsius (nearly 6/10ths of a degree Fahrenheit) off a warming future compared with the projections a year ago. Only one-third of countries that signed the agreement, covering 63 per cent of emissions, submitted new climate plans.
Canada submitted its latest plan in February. It has since been rated "highly insufficient" by the non-profit group Climate Action Tracker.
Earlier this year, Environment and Climate Change Canada forecast an emissions drop of 18
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