New York: United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has sounded a clarion call for urgent global climate action, urging countries to set tougher and faster targets for 2035. Addressing a high-level climate summit on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, Guterres said that while the 2015 Paris Agreement helped shift momentum, the world remains far off track from the 1.5°C warming limit. He stressed that the coming decade will be decisive, warning that existing pledges “are not enough to keep humanity safe.”

Among the new commitments, China stood out by pledging its first-ever absolute emission reduction goal. Beijing announced plans to cut emissions by 7–10 percent from peak levels by 2035, alongside a sixfold expansion in wind and solar power compared with 2020. This would r

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