Saudi Arabia has successfully lobbied for a major climate change report to be scrubbed from international negotiations on limiting global temperature rise to 1.5C. The Saudis led a loose coalition of oil-producing nations, including the US, Russia and Iran, that objected to the science behind the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).The report emphasised the need to keep warming down to 1.5C as a matter of survival for many countries and called for drastic action to reach this goal, with the whole world needing to hit zero emissions by 2050. However, as a result of the Saudi-led intervention, this landmark report was blocked from formal climate talks at Bonn this week.
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And then the UN chief pushes back
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/paris-climate-goals-arent-enough-to-avert-catastrophe-un-chief-warns-2019-06-30
Will the three countries who don't like science (Saudi Arabia, Iran and the US) stop schools from teaching science?