![]() ![]() “We are going to increasingly see the impacts of climate change, particularly in the poorer countries and communities, but they will spread to everyone in a way that will undermine and roll back development,” Robinson told the Thomson Reuters Foundation in an interview. “The stark reality is that if we don’t get a climate agreement that is rigorous enough to begin to have us change course, then the Sustainable Development Goals are not very meaningful,” she said. That means making sure countries reduce their planet-warming carbon emissions by at least enough to stop the global average temperature rising more than 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial times - “the upper limit of what we can tolerate”. The former Irish president, who runs her own foundation for climate justice, said the new climate agreement, expected in December, should be “true to the science”. development goals, due to be adopted later this month, will be undermined if an international deal to tackle climate change does not set the world on track to keep within a safe limit of global warming, top human rights advocate and U.N. BARCELONA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A new set of U.N. ![]()
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