Beyond the technical negotiations, like agreeing on rules about how countries should report cuts to pollution or finalizing previous agreements, delegates will haggle over two core issues: emissions and money. UN climate summits are a forum for world leaders to agree on plans to burn fewer fossil fuels. "It is impossible not to hear the despairing voices of young people who see you as the stewards of the planet, holding the viability of the future in your hands," Charles said. "Unless we get this right in tackling climate change, we could see our civilization, our world, also go backward."īritain's Prince Charles told G20 leaders in Rome on Sunday that they have an "overwhelming responsibility to generations yet unborn." "When things start to go wrong, they can go wrong at extraordinary speed," said British Prime Minister Boris Johnson ahead of the weekend G20 summit, drawing a parallel between climate change and the fall of the Roman Empire. Low-lying islands are particularly at risk of rising sea levels resulting from warming temperatures
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