On Monday, at the United Nations Climate Action Summit, comes a glimpse of how far presidents and prime ministers are willing to go. The United Nations secretary general, António Guterres, expects around 60 countries to announce what he called new “concrete” plans to reduce emissions and help the world’s most vulnerable cope with the fallout from global warming. The problem is, the protesters in the streets and some of the diplomats in the General Assembly hall are living in separate worlds.
By Somini Sengupta. New York Times. September 22, 2019.
