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UN Calls for All Countries to Declare Climate Emergency

UN climate change Climate Ambition Summit
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At the December 12 Climate Ambition Summit, held in London, UN Secretary-General António Guterres called on all countries of the world to immediately declare a “climate emergency.”

“Five years after the Paris [accord] we are still not going in the right direction,” Guterres said.

“There is a promise to limit temperature rises to as close [to] 1.5 degrees [as] possible but the commitments made in Paris were far from enough to get there and even those commitments are not being met,” Guterres complained.

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