UN to world leaders: To curtail warming, you must do more
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For the second time in four days, this time out of UN headquarters in New York, leaders will hear pleas to make deeper cuts of emissions of heat-trapping gases and give poorer countries more money to develop cleaner energy and adapt to the worsening impacts of climate change.
For the second time in four days, this time out of UN headquarters in New York, leaders will hear pleas to make deeper cuts of emissions of heat-trapping gases and give poorer countries more money to develop cleaner energy and adapt to the worsening impacts of climate change.
"I'm not desperate, but I'm tremendously worried," United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told The Associated Press in a weekend interview. "We are on the verge of the abyss and we cannot afford a step in the wrong direction."
So on Monday, Guterres and United Kingdom Prime Minister Boris Johnson are hosting a closed-door session with 35 to 40 world leaders to get countries to do more leading up to the huge climate negotiations in Scotland in six weeks. Those negotiations in the fall are designed to be the next step after the 2015 Paris climate agreement.
And all this comes after Friday, when U.S. President Joe Biden convened a private forum on climate to coax leaders to act now.
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