COP31: World warned climate action is falling far behind as global temperatures rise
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- ✓The COP31 climate summit opened in Antalya, Turkey, on Monday, November 9.
- ✓World leaders said climate action is falling far behind as temperatures rise.
- ✓UN Secretary-General António Guterres said, "We have entered a new age of climate extremes." Officials now want countries to focus on implementing their existing climate goals.
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The COP31 climate summit opened in Antalya, Turkey, on Monday, November 9, with world leaders and climate officials calling for faster action against global warming as rising temperatures and increasingly frequent extreme weather events threaten lives, livelihoods and the global economy.
The two-week United Nations climate conference, running until November 20, comes amid growing concerns that the world is on track to breach the Paris Agreement's 1.5°C warming threshold, even as governments grapple with competing challenges, including geopolitical conflicts, inflation and the rapid rise of artificial intelligence.
"The urgency of this moment must drive us forward," UN Climate Change Executive Secretary Simon Stiell said in prepared remarks at the opening of the summit. He warned that progress on tackling climate change so far was "nowhere near fast enough".
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