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UN voices urgency at COP30: Paris goal bent but speed must increase, NDCs project 12% cut by 2035
Summary
Simon Steele, the United Nations climate change executive secretary, told delegates at COP30 in Belem that emissions have begun to fall since Paris but countries must accelerate reductions and resilience efforts.
Simon Steele, the United Nations climate change executive secretary, told delegates at the opening plenary of the 30th Conference of the Parties (COP30) in Belem, Brazil, that a decade after the Paris Agreement the global emissions curve has been bent downwards but countries must move much faster on emissions reductions and on strengthening resilience.
“We were designing the future, a future that would clearly see the curve of emissions bend downwards,” Steele said, as…
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