UN chief Ban Ki-Moon seeks ‘global action’ on climate

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UN chief Ban Ki-Moon is calling for renewed “global action” to limit climate change ahead of a quadrennial congress in Geneva.

 

The World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) meeting is a forerunner to a key conference in Paris at the end of the year which will be the first attempt to clinch a planet-wide deal on global warming since the near-disastrous 2009 UN summit in Copenhagen.

 

The Paris accord, which would take effect from 2020, will aim to limit global warming to a maximum of two degrees Celsius over pre-industrial levels.

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