\United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres opened the United Nations' Climate Ambition Summit Wednesday in New York City with a dramatic declaration that 'humanity has opened the gates of hell.'
While the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has said that 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming over preindustrial temperatures will cause catastrophic global consequences, national pledges to reduce emissions have so far fallen short of what is needed to stay below that threshold — leaving what experts call an"emissions gap." The world already has warmed 1.
. Countries that have recently taken new actions to reduce emissions or deforestation such as Brazil, Canada, and South Africa, and the European Union were represented among the speakers, as were low-lying countries under intense threat from rising sea levels such as Tuvalu and Pakistan. There were also speakers from institutions like the World Bank and local governments such as the city of London and the state of California.against five of the biggest oil companies for allegedly lying to the public about climate science and it recently passed bills requiring all large companies to disclose their carbon emissions.Attacks on fossil fuels
Advocates of increased climate action have been calling for developed nations to make plans to fully phase out the use of fossil fuels, a goal
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