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UN warns insufficient global action keeps climate risk high


The United Nations is sounding the alarm, warning that current global efforts to combat climate change are falling short. The driving force behind future warming, the UN says, remains our reliance on fossil fuels like gas, oil, and coal.

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00:00The United Nations is sounding the alarm, warning that current global efforts to combat climate change are falling short.
00:08The driving force behind Future Warning, the UN says, remains the reliance on fossil fuels like gas, oil and coal.
00:16According to the report, the United States' decision to withdraw from the Paris Agreement has dealt a setback to recent climate progress.
00:23Now, the gap is existential to many countries and many communities, and so that's why we have to shine a light on it.
00:31Communities that will be flooded, fires will be raging, droughts will be happening, tropical storms will be more intense and more frequent,
00:41water is running out in a number of cities, large cities across the world.
00:45This is the reality now, and the greater the gap, quote-unquote, the slower our mitigation action.
00:54Before the Paris Agreement, the world was on track for a staggering 4 degrees Celsius temperature rise.
00:59Thanks to some progress, that risk has dropped, but experts warn much more needs to be done.
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