The heat dome across the western United States also helped to generate heavy rains in the northeast, claiming at least five lives. The heat warnings spread as far as Florida.
The heat dome across the western United States also helped to generate heavy rains in the northeast, claiming at least five lives. The heat warnings spread as far as Florida.
China, India, Russia, and Japan, among the world’s largest emitters, must “really step up” and begin to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, according to US Special Presidential Envoy for Climate Change John Kerry, who also urged all nations to increase their ambition in the fight against climate change. Kerry joined UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres for a virtual event on Friday to commemorate the United States’ re-entry into the Paris Agreement. Government pledges to reduce carbon dioxide and methane emissions are now insufficient, he added, to keep global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius over pre-industrial levels this century. Kerry went on to remark that the United States was working with some of these developing countries to assist their transition to greener energy sources […]