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4 ways to make this year’s climate summit a turning point for our planet
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4 ways to make this year’s climate summit a turning point for our planet

Environmental Defense Fund·@HashtagPLUS·about 1 month ago
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By  Fred Krupp , President Nearly one in three Americans lived through a climate-related disaster during this past summer. One of the first signs of fall, at least for me, is what’s known as Climate Week, which took place last week alongside the annual United Nations General Assembly in NYC. This year felt more urgent than ever. Climate change is now an unavoidable global emergency. So the momentum generated by Climate Week needs to be ramped up considerably when global leaders meet again at the U.N. climate summit — known as COP26 — in November. What needs to happen between Climate Week and COP26? 1. Countries must amp up their emission reduction targets. Current targets, agreed to in the Paris accord, simply aren’t good enough to avert disastrous climate impacts. We all need to do better. While many countries including the U.S., EU and the U.K. have established new, ambitious reduction targets, others need to step up, including Russia, Australia, South Korea, Japan, Brazil, India and China.…

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