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Delegates from almost 200 countries are meeting in Lima, Peru, this week for the 28th Conference of the Parties to the Paris Agreement on climate change, and a new report from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change shows that even though the 2015 agreement set a goal of keeping global temperatures from rising 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) over pre-industrial levels, governments aren't on track to meet that goal, the Guardian reports.
The report, which analyzed more than 1,600 documents, found that emissions of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases are still rising, and that efforts to reduce emissions and adapt to climate change are lagging behind.
The report is the first to be compiled as part of a process known as the "global stocktake," which began in 2013 and will run through 2023.
The goal of the Paris Agreement is for countries to make voluntary pledges to reduce emissions, and to review those pledges every fifth year.
But critics say the process doesn't work as well as it could, and some countries, including the US, have announced plans to leave the agreement.
But the London School of Economics argues that the process can still have a positive effect, even if countries aren't acting fast enough.
"Even if the stocktake process has
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