UN to world leaders: To curtail warming, you must do more
Pressure keeps building on increasingly anxious world leaders to ratchet up efforts to fight climate change, and officials report slight but vague signs of encouragement from ongoing talks at the United Nations.
For the second time in four days, this time out of U.N. headquarters in New York, leaders heard pleas Monday 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.
In a private session of more than two hours, about 40 of the worlds leaders provided encouraging declarations on the money end, but there is still a long way to go on emission cuts, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told reporters afterward. He gave no specifics.
We need decisive action now to avert climate catastrophe and for that we need solidarity, Guterres, speaking at a news conference after the session Monday, said he told world leaders. There is a high risk of failure at huge climate negotiations in six weeks.
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