Most nations miss deadline for plans to fight climate change

NEW YORK: Nearly 200 nations faced a Monday deadline to file what the United Nations‘ climate chief calls “among the most important policy documents governments will produce this century” – their plans on how they will cut emissions of heat-trapping gases. Most won’t make the deadline. The UN says that’s OK as long as they are working on them.So far only a dozen of the 195 nations that signed the 2015 Paris climate agreement have filed their national plans for cutting emissions by 2035.

Those nations account for only 16.2 per cent of the world’s…