As climate crisis reaches pivotal moment, what on earth are world leaders waiting for?
by Louise Boyle
Dec 01, 2023
3 minutes
As world leaders meet for the Cop28 climate conference, The Independent reports that the world has only a handful of years left to rein in emissions before we exhaust the planet’s ability to cope.
The two-week summit in Dubai opened to a “deafening cacophony of broken records”, the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) said on Thursday.
With King Charles set to use his opening address today to call for a “critical turning point towards genuine transformational action”:
- UN secretary general Antonio Guterres warned unprecedented global heat “should send shivers down the spines of world leaders”
- Hosts UAE insisted no
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