Climate Changed
UN’s Guterres Blasts Shipping, Aviation Climate Targets as Too Lax
- Current goals aligned with warming above 3 degrees: Guterres
- Calls for ‘urgent’ work toward conformity with Paris Agreement
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The head of the United Nations challenged member states and the global body’s own agencies to step up climate goals, saying current targets are far too lax.
Targets set forth for shipping and aviation aren’t aligned with the goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius set at the 2015 Paris Agreement, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said at a conference in Beijing.