Nations Keep Upping Fossil-Fuel Production Despite Climate Pledge

After world leaders pledged to cut emissions to help the environment, nations are stepping up production of fossil fuels

The Stanton Energy Center in the Orlando, Fla., area is moving away from coal. (VIDEO: Paul Hennessy/NurPhoto/Getty Images)

World leaders pledged in 2015 to reduce emissions in a combined effort to limit climate change.  

Now they are stepping up production of oil, gas and coal, which will have the opposite effect. 

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