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Environmentalists warn Katowice summit making no progress
Protesters participate in a march calling for an end to fossil fuel use during the two-week COP24 global climate talks in Katowice, Poland, last weekend
ENVIRONMENTALISTS demanded “new leadership” on climate change today, as campaign groups raised fears the Katowice summit would not propel faster action to address it.
Vanessa Perez-Cirera of the World Wildlife Fund said: "We cannot afford to lose one of the 12 years remaining,” referring to United Nations estimates that global warming could only be contained to within 1.5°C if fossil fuel use is reduced ‘dramatically’ by 2030.
ActionAid’s Harjeet Singh said the United States, Japan and Australia were opposing efforts to reduce emissions while the European Union was “a mere spectator.”
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