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A make-or-break year for humanity to respond to runaway warming
Biden's summit a positive step, but window to avert climate disaster is rapidly closing
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The virtual climate summit of 40 countries convened by President Joe Biden saw world leaders making pledges, but they were mostly non-specific.
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After years of false starts, the just-concluded two-day climate summit of 40 countries convened by United States President Joe Biden did seem to be a new beginning - a "last best chance", as the President's climate change envoy John Kerry put it.
Yet, while some leaders made public pledges, most were non-specific. That is why even the most optimistic are only cautiously so. If humanity is to avert 3 deg C or more of warming above pre-industrial levels, which it is on track for now, serious action needs to start now - and nowhere more urgently than in the US.
