Not Enough Global Action for Change

 In order to avoid catastrophes regarded our climate, the amount of emissions produced would have to be cut in half by 2030. New pledges submitted by United Nations would only cut it down by 1%, which is nowhere close to good. It's far from the promises made by many countries. Paris fell back and didn't reach their goal of limiting global temperature increase which was expected by the end of 2020. The United States was pulled out from this plan by Donald Trump, but is now back in and planning on submitting their 2030 goals by April 22. The US is a huge issue, producing more greenhouse gases than any other country. China is also a huge issue in emission production and has not yet submitted their goals either. China has expectations of being carbon neutral by 2060. Some countries submitted plans without change, and Mexico seems to be retreating from their original clean energy plan. On the brighter side, 63 countries raised their targets. The Paris Agreement is not allowed to dictate any countries, rather diplomatic pressure is expected to be used in order to enforce other countries to do better.

I think it's kind of scary that countries are being given the chance to do better with the support of each other, but many aren't. If this persists, our planet could be in serious danger and it would only be our own faults. All of these countries are their own enemies when it comes to climate change. 

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