
UN chief opens climate summit with call for hope over ‘surrender’
Why in news?
- 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.
Sources
The Hindu