Climate pledges: New beginnings or just hot air?
The recent commitment by the US to cut emissions to half of what they were in 2005 and India’s problematic, and often contradictory, clean energy push—do they pass muster?
27 April, 2021•11 min
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27 April, 2021•11 min
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