UN Urges Deeper Pollution Cuts in Biggest Challenge for Humanity
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Governments worldwide must step up efforts to save the planet from global warming in the biggest challenge humanity has ever undertaken, according to United Nations’ climate chief Christiana Figueres.
Developing and industrialized nations aren’t doing enough to prevent the global temperature rising 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) from pre-industrial times, Figueres said in an interview during the Carbon Expo conference in Barcelona yesterday. The global average has already risen by about 0.8 of a degree in the past century, according to the National Research Council in Washington.