BRUSSELS: The United Nations and Britain will host an online climate summit in December, the fifth anniversary of the U.N. Paris climate agreement, in a last-ditch bid to have countries meet a deadline to upgrade their emissions-cutting pledges.
The aim is to inject momentum into global efforts to combat climate change, after this year’s planned U.N. climate summit in Glasgow was postponed by a year due to the coronavirus pandemic.
At a climate roundtable on Thursday on the sidelines of the annual gathering of world leaders for the U.N. General Assembly, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said the online summit on Dec. 12 would be “an important moment to continue raising climate ambition.”
Guterres also urged big emitters like China and the European Union – both of which announced tougher climate targets…