UN chief opens climate summit with call for hope over ‘surrender’

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  • UN Climate Conference(COP25) open in Madrid with UN Secretary-General Guterres message that the planet is 'close to a point of no return'
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  • Two weeks of talks aimed at bolstering the 2015 Paris Agreement to curb global warming began against a backdrop of unusually severe weather disasters this year, from fires in the Arctic, Amazon and Australia to intense tropical hurricanes.
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The Hindu
 
 
 
 
Posted by Jawwad Kazi on 3rd Dec 2019