India, Dec. 4 -- The Guardian and many others still believe developed nations are on track with climate targets
"Is your country's climate pledge consistent with keeping global heating under 1.5degC?" screams a headline on a webpage of the left-leaning British newspaper, The Guardian covering United Nations Secretary General Antonio Gutteres' pre-CoP speech on December 1, 2019.
Considering how the newspaper has long sought to use its coverage of the climate emergency to push for meaningful change, the answer it gave its core readership (whether they defined themselves as British or European) was surprisingly not a action-engendering "No" but a complacency-inducing "Yes".
The source of that answer was a report titled The Truth Behind the ...