Leaders of the world’s 20 biggest economies have agreed to tackle “the critical and urgent threat of climate change”, but angered activists by offering few concrete commitments to limit global warming.Wrapping up a summit in Rome, the leaders of the G20 pledged on Sunday to stop funding coal-fired power plants in poor countries, but set no timetable for phasing it out at home.They agreed to cap the global rise in temperature to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) above the pre-industrial average, but made only a vague commitment to seek carbon neutrality “by or around mid-century”.
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