The Marshall Islands will declare a zero-emission goal for 2050 or sooner when it becomes the first small island state to submit its climate target to the United Nations, President Christopher Loeak announced this week. The island republic will be the first developing country to adopt a “more robust, absolute, economy-wide target” of the sort that is usually expected of industrialized countries, reports The Guardian.
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