2020 might be our last best chance to tackle the climate crisis


"Dear Friends,

The science is indisputable: 2020 might be our last best chance to tackle the climate crisis and to preserve the spirit of the Paris agreement. In 2019, we witnessed the ravages of climate inaction: tropical cyclones, wildfires, cities asphyxiating under clouds of smoke and heat waves. 2019 marks the end of the hottest decade ever recorded and in the sole first half of the year a record number of 7 million people have been displaced because of extreme weather events. And we know that what 2019 is only the weakest version of what is yet to come if we do not choose to act now.

In 2020, five years after the adoption of the Paris Agreement, countries will submit their enhanced Nationally Determined Contributions and this will mark a historic step in the fight against climate change as the world unites to get our planet back on the right track.
But 2020 also opens a new decade. Fighting climate change will be the key driver of this collective action: stabilizing our planet’s climate is the prerequisite of any further success in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals." ～Mr. Nicolas de Rivière @onu.delegfrance.org
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