UNITED NATIONS - Saying humanity is waging war with the planet, the head of the United Nations isn't planning to let just any world leader speak about climate change at Monday's special"action summit".
Brazil's, Poland's and Saudi Arabia's proposals for dealing with climate change fell short, so they're not on Monday's summit schedule. The United States didn't even bother, according to a U.N. official, who spoke on condition of anonymity. There is a sense of urgency, Guterres said, because"climate change is the defining issue of our time","For the first time, there is a serious conflict between people and nature, between people and the planet," Guterres said.
World leaders agreed in 2009 to try to keep warming to just 2 degrees Celsius since pre-industrial times. Then in 2015, they agreed to restrict warming to"well below" 2 deg C and added a secondary, tougher goal, at the urging of small islands, to keep warming to just 1.5 deg C.Efforts to reduce carbon pollution need to be tripled to keep from hitting the 2-degree Celsius mark and must increase fivefold to limit warming to 1.
"There is a growing recognition that climate impacts are hitting harder and sooner than climate assessments indicated even a decade ago," the 28-page report said.
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