International Energy Agency chief says chance of meeting targets of the Paris Agreement are getting ‘weaker and weaker’ Global carbon emissions will rise to a new record level in 2018 - making the chances of reaching a target to keep temperature increases to 1.5 or 2C “weaker and weaker every year, every month” - the head of the International Energy Agency (IEA) has said. Fatih Birol told a conference in Paris that data for the first nine months of the years was already pointing to a record...