Every year in the early hours of a December night, in some outer suburb of a far-flung city in the echoing corridors of a vast conference hall, you will find a ragged horde of weary journalists and TV news crews slumped over tables, crashed out on floors, and staring aimlessly at the doors of locked-up coffee shops.
That is how the final hours of the annual United Nations climate summit always end up – be it in Lima, Doha, Warsaw or Marrakesh.
Suddenly, there is a flurry of activity as rumours circulate that a deal has been reached by the even more tired, but still talking, teams of national negotiators.
Developed countries urged to honor Paris accord
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Republic Plaza.
The campaign was launched by C40, a network of megacities committed to realising the goals of the Paris Agreement.
Other C40 cities expected to participate in the green lighting initiative are Austin, Boston, Lisbon, New York City, San Francisco, Venice, Paris and Seoul.
Singapore has set a target of peaking emissions in 2030
The press release further added that Singapore submitted the following two items to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in March 2020:
The Enhanced Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC), which aims to peak emissions at 65 Metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (MTCO2e) around 2030, and
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