By UN News
People across the world need to embrace “fundamental change” in order to combat climate change and meet the target of restricting the increase in global temperatures to 1.5 degrees Celsius, Claudio Forner, from UN Climate Change in Bonn, told UN News in an interview that took place following the Climate Action Summit.
He leads up the Ambition Team, which analyses the climate commitments made by countries, regions and cities across the world, which are vital to helping slow down global warming.
Dozens of commitments were made at the Climate Action Summit 2019 hosted by the UN Secretary-General, in New York in September.
Chief amongst them was a move by many countries to reach a point by 2050 where the net balance of emissions of harmful carbon dioxide (CO2) gas is maintained at zero. Read more>>
