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July 19, 2022

U.N. Secretary-General Says Climate Goal of Limiting Warming to 1.5°C on "Life Support"
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In China, forecasters are predicting scorching temperatures will return
this week, with hundreds of millions set to experience triple-digit
heat.

On Monday, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said the
Paris climate accord's goal of limiting global temperature rise to 1.5
degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels was on "life support." He was
speaking at a climate conference in Berlin.

Secretary-General António Guterres: "No nation is immune. Yet we
continue to feed our fossil fuel addiction. What troubles me most is
that, in facing this global crisis, we are failing to work together as a
multilateral community. Nations continue to play the blame game instead
of taking responsibility for our collective futures."



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