India, Dec. 6 -- A significant proportion of the continent's emissions reduction has been driven by outsourcing and other extraneous factors

In the past year, there have been many flip flops in authoritative projections of whether the European Union (EU) is on track to hit its Paris Agreement target of a 40 per cent reduction in emissions over 1990 levels by 2030. While last year's edition of UNEP's Emissions Gap Report estimated that the bloc was not on track to meet this commitment, the European Commission's 2050 long term strategy document released around the same time argued that on the contrary, the country was on track to cut emissions by 45 per cent. This year, while the recently released Emissions Gap Report estimated that the bl...