Delegates to the Global Climate Action Summit, which ended in California on Friday, have called on national governments to join forces to step up climate action ahead of 2020. The call is for humanity to avoid the worst impacts of climate change in this year when global greenhouse gases need to peak and fall sharply. Bennett Oghifo reports
The meeting of leaders from states and regions, cities, business, investors and civil society at the Global Climate Action Summit (GCAS) underlined the transformational action they are already pursuing.
Over 100 leaders, for example, are now committed to carbon neutrality—or removing as much carbon dioxide from the atmosphere as they emit with the Governor of California bringing the date forward for his state achieving this to 2045.
Leaders also unveiled a range of bold new commitments across five specific challenge…
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