Africa: Leaders Meeting At UN Underscore Need to Fast-Track Climate Action

19 September 2017

Leaders from various levels of government, the private sector and civil society highlighted the need for climate action as they convened at United Nations Headquarters, where Secretary-General António Guterres warned that current pledges and plans are insufficient to keep global temperature rise to well below 2 degrees.

"Hurricanes Harvey and Irma and Maria and the massive floods in South Asia are just the most recent demonstration of the urgency of tackling climate change ," said Mr. Guterres in his remarks to the Leaders' Dialogue on Climate Change, held today on the margins of the high-level session of the General Assembly.

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