Earth Still Sailing Into Climate Chaos, UN Says, But Course Could Shift

"The biggest polluters are continuing to pollute, raising the risks of global warming. There are, however, new signs of a pivot to a green economy."

"The world as a whole is dangerously behind schedule in slowing catastrophic climate change, and its richest people will have to make big changes in their everyday lives in order to shift course, a major United Nations report warned Wednesday.

But nearly five years after a landmark international climate agreement in Paris, there are signs of a sea change, including from some of the biggest polluters in the world.

The “undercurrent” of the global economy has shifted, said Christiana Figueres, a former United Nations diplomat who led the negotiations that yielded the Paris Agreement in 2015. “We are moving faster than we ever were,” she said in a call with reporters Wednesday."

Somini Sengupta reports for the New York Times December 9, 2020.

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Source: NYTimes, 12/10/2020