US climate pledges likely to go unmet: study

The United States will likely fail to meet its pledges under the landmark Paris climate pact to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, analysts said Thursday on the margin of UN climate talks. "With no additional policies, emissions in the US will be flat until 2030," said Niklas Hohne, director of the NewClimate Institute in Cologne, Germany, and co-author of the analysis. Under the Paris Agreement, which went into force last week, the United States committed to slashing its carbon pollution by 26-28