Are developed countries serious about climate change?

Report reveals G20 is failing to meet Paris emissions targets, with 82% of energy still coming from fossil fuels

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All but one of the world’s leading 20 economies have failed to meet their commitments to reduce climate change, with 82% of all energy in these countries still coming from fossil fuels.

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Elliott Goat is a freelance writer at The Week Digital. A winner of The Independent's Wyn Harness Award, he has been a journalist for over a decade with a focus on human rights, disinformation and elections. He is co-founder and director of Brussels-based investigative NGO Unhack Democracy, which works to support electoral integrity across Europe. A Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Fellow focusing on unions and the Future of Work, Elliott is a founding member of the RSA's Good Work Guild and a contributor to the International State Crime Initiative, an interdisciplinary forum for research, reportage and training on state violence and corruption.