Ibrahim Mohamed Solih, president of the Maldives, said at COP26: 'I have no choice but to keep on repeating it. What will it take for you to listen to us?'
World leaders and delegates representing almost every country have convened in Glasgow, Scotland for U.N.-brokered climate talks, a major climate event known as COP26.
Prime Minister of Barbados Mia Mottley speaks during the opening ceremony of the UN Climate Change Conference COP26 at SECC on November 1, 2021 in Glasgow, United Kingdom.GLASGOW, Scotland — World leaders, campaigners and environmental activists representing people most threatened by climate change issued a defiant "warrior cry" at the COP26 summit on Monday: Do not compromise on 1.5 degrees Celsius.
"This is my message from Earth to COP," Fruean said. "I hope you remember my words today and look closely at your words as you go throughout COP." For those who have eyes to see, for those who have ears to listen and for those who have a heart to feel, 1.5 is what we need to survive.Ibrahim Mohamed Solih, president of the Maldives, opened his national statement on Monday by repeating an appeal he had issued several times before: "I have no choice but to keep on repeating it. What will it take for you to listen to us?"
To have any chance of capping global heating to 1.5 degrees Celsius, the aspirational goal of the landmark 2015 Paris climate accord, the world needs to almost halve greenhouse gas emissions in the next 8 years and reach net-zero emissions by 2050.
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