During a joint press conference with New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Sunday, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres had a grim warning for the public: the world is “facing a climate emergency” and is “not on track” to meet the objectives outlined in the Paris Agreement.
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| New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres had a grim warning for the public. |
Guterres explained that the political will to fight climate change has faded, resulting in “climate change [is] running faster than what we are.”
The fact of the matter, says Guterres, is that countries are not living up to their commitments under the 2016 Paris Agreement, which calls for limiting temperature increases to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
Read the story from Nation of Change by Alexandra Jacobo - “UN chief: ‘Climate change is running faster than what we are’.”
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