ASSOCIATED PRESS • February 8, 2021
Polluters must step up their commitments to cutting greenhouse gas emissions before a crucial climate summit in November, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Monday. Guterres said the global body’s “central objective” this year is to get countries and companies responsible for 90 percent of the world’s human-made emissions to set credible deadlines by when they will stop adding further planet-heating gases to the atmosphere.