Many of the world's biggest polluter nations have missed a U.N. deadline to set new climate targets as efforts to curb global warming come under pressure following U.S. President Donald Trump's election.

Most of the world’s nations have missed a UN deadline to set new climate targets as efforts to curb global warming come under pressure following U.S. President Donald Trump's election.

Nearly every nation on the planet missed a UN deadline Monday to submit new targets for reducing their carbon emissions. Global emissions need to almost halve by the end of the decade to limit

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.

Douglas McIntyre, Editor-in-Chief at Climate Crisis, reports that most major nations expected to submit their annual climate action plans to the UN will miss the deadline. These plans, a key component of the Paris Accords,