Nearly 200 nations faced a Monday deadline to file what the U.N.’s climate chief calls 'among the most important policy documents governments will produce this century.'

The Nations' climate chief calls the nations' plans “among the most important policy documents governments will produce this century.”

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,

Nearly all nations missed a UN deadline Monday to submit new targets for slashing carbon emissions, including major economies under pressure to show leadership following the US retreat on climate change.