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UN Climate Change Conference – COP24

Special Coverage of COP24, the UN Climate Change Conference
2 December-14 December 2018

As world leaders and change-makers gather this December in Katowice, Poland, for the 24th Conference of the Parties of the Climate Change Convention, or COP24, UN News will provide you with a front row seat to all the action.

Follow the negotiations on how nations can collectively limit global warming, find out about the latest technologies available to reduce the harmful impact of human activity on the planet, stay connected to those who are making a difference, every day, across the globe.

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420 million more people will suffer if we can’t keep global warming to 1.5°C: UN weather chief

When the Paris climate agreement was signed in 2015, almost all nations agreed to come together to limit global warming to below 2 degrees Celsius but, ideally, to keep it below 1.5 degrees.

On Monday, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released an exhaustively researched report on the effects of a 1.5° and 2° Celsius increase in global temperatures.

Conor Lennon from UN News has been listening to what the report’s authors had to say.

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Secretary-General António Guterres delivers a major speech on climate change at the UN Headquarters in New York. 10 September 2018.
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‘Direct existential threat’ of climate change nears point of no return, warns UN chief

The world risks crossing the point of no return on climate change, with disastrous consequences for people across the planet and the natural systems that sustain them, the United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres warned on Monday, calling for more leadership and greater ambition for climate action, to reverse course.