India, Dec. 12 -- To capglobal warming at 1.5degC or even 2degC is a tall task that needs much more effort from countries in reducing reliance on fossil fuels

Five years since the adoption of the Paris Agreement, the world is still far from meeting the climate goals: Of capping the global average temperature increase at "well below 2 degree Celsius above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5degC above pre-industrial levels."

At the 21 st Conference of Parties (COP 21) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Paris, non-Annex 1 - developing - countries signed pledges; they agreed to shoulder the responsibility of reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions along wi...