Africa > FEATURE: Countries set to spurn UN chief’s calls for more climate ambition

FEATURE: Countries set to spurn UN chief’s calls for more climate ambition

Published 11:12 on August 30, 2019  /  Last updated at 00:20 on September 16, 2020  / Stian Reklev /  Africa, Americas, Asia Pacific, Australia, Canada, Carbon Taxes, CBAM, China, Climate Talks, EMEA, International, Japan, Mexico, Other APAC, South & Central, South Korea, US

World leaders are unlikely to heed the UN secretary-general’s calls for countries to ramp up their Paris Agreement ambition next month, as domestic concerns and indifference from the US administration and other global heavyweights outweigh increasingly alarming evidence of a climate emergency.
World leaders are unlikely to heed the UN secretary-general’s calls for countries to ramp up their Paris Agreement ambition next month, as domestic concerns and indifference from the US administration and other global heavyweights outweigh increasingly alarming evidence of a climate emergency.


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