The UN’s climate chief has warned there are two years to save the world, as he urged Britain and other rich nations to produce stronger environmental plans to cut emissions.
Simon Stiell, executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, said the next two years were pivotal because of “record shattering heat” and a race between countries to “a new clean energy economy”.
Delivering a speech at Chatham House in London titled “Two years to save the world”, he said some people might think the characterisation “melodramatic”.
However, Stiell, a former minister of Grenada who helped to forge last year’s climate deal in Dubai, said the “next two years are essential in saving our planet”. His intervention came as March was
