On September 20, the UN Secretary-General António Guterres is hosting a Climate Ambition Summit seeking to galvanize greater climate action from world leaders. Coming on the heels of the powerful ‘March to End Fossil Fuels’ last weekend, this summit continues the pressure on governments to meet the urgency of the moment.
Despite this year’s grim series of extreme climate-fueled disasters and record-breaking temperatures—part of a trend of worsening climate impacts—global heat-trapping emissions continue their alarming rise. The big question, though, is whether world leaders will show up and deliver—or will they, once again, fail us?
What is the Climate Ambition Summit?
Back in March of this year, when the sobering IPCC AR6 Synthesis Report was released, the UN Secretary-General made a powerful speech calling the scientific report a ‘how-to guide to…
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