World political leaders are descending on New York for the UN general assembly and some of them are putting the climate change on the agenda as they spoke on Monday at the start of the city’s annual Climate Week.
Frostadóttir said the Nordic country’s move to geothermal energy was catalysed by the global oil crisis.
Selwin Hart, assistant secretary general for climate action at the UN, said the Iran war had further proven this point.
Climate Week has been held annually in New York since 2009 and organizers said this year’s iteration will be the largest yet, with more than 100,000 attendees drawn from politics, business and activism.
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This year’s Climate Week comes after months of extreme heat in large parts of the world including Europe and the US, wildfires in Africa, flash flooding in Asia and a record El Niño. The science told us unmistakably that as the world warms these events will become more frequent and intense.
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Prime ministers of Australia and Iceland discuss effects on their countries even as some shy away in face of war and inflation.
World political leaders are descending on New York for the UN general assembly and some of them are putting the climate change on the agenda as they spoke on Monday at the start of the city’s annual Climate Week.
The prime minister of Australia, Anthony Albanese, gave the opening keynote address Monday while Iceland’s prime minister, Kristrún Frostadóttir, gave the closing remarks.
Frostadóttir said the Nordic country’s move to geothermal energy was catalysed by the global oil crisis. In the early-1970s, most Icelandic homes were burning imported oil for heat.
Yet little was said on the opening day of Climate Week about the US government’s recent efforts to block climate action, such as the Trump administration’s move to pay nearly $4bn in taxpayer dollars to stop offshore wind projects and measures to weaken emissions standards for vehicles and coal-fired power plants.
Selwin Hart, assistant secretary general for climate action at the UN, said the Iran war had further proven this point.
Lt Gen Richard Nugee, a retired senior British army officer, said that militaries need to be able to operate in the environment in which they find themselves, and those environments are changing.
Pflug said the company just announced a new solar park in South Carolina000 solar panels.
Climate Week has been held annually in New York since 2009 and organizers said this year’s iteration will be the largest yet, with more than 100,000 attendees drawn from politics, business and activism.
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