Climate change: 'World at crossroads' warning as key talks begin

[Eugene]

Source: BBC

Climate change: 'World at crossroads' warning as key talks begin

By Matt McGrath
Environment correspondent, Katowice

2 December 2018

Four senior figures behind efforts to limit climate change have warned that the planet "is at a crossroads" as key talks opened a day early in Poland.

In a rare move, four former presidents of the United Nations-sponsored talks called for decisive action.

The meeting in Katowice is the most critical on climate change since the 2015 Paris agreement.

Experts say that drastic cuts in emissions will be needed if the world is to reach targets agreed in Paris.

Negotiators at the COP24 conference convened a day early because they are under pressure to make progress.

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Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-46398057

[Squinch]

1. Thank you again, Eugene.

[Boomer]

2. Too little, too late

If this was a headline from the 1970s, we would have some hope. In 2018, it's almost ludicrous to describe this as a "crossroads." We blew through the crossroad junction decades ago. We're now on the wrong side of a tipping point.

[Mickju]

3. You are correct, I think.

[nitpicker]

4. Link to DW

https://www.dw.com/en/crunch-time-for-the-climate-at-the-cop24-global-warming-conference/a-46510378

[nitpicker]

5. And The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/dec/03/we-are-last-generation-that-can-stop-climate-change-un-summit