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ROME (AP) — The drought-stricken island nation of Madagascar is a ’wake up call” to what the world can expect in coming years due to climate change, the head of the United Nations' food aid agency said Tuesday.

Powerful words but with nearly 200 countries represented here, there are so many different agendas, that is why progress is usually slow. if you are sitting down, you can take your mask off and it is often in places like this that small, informal groups of negotiators will get together to try to crank the hardest questions like getting aid to the poorest nations who are hit hardest by climate change. ive seen for myself how droughts and other extremes of weather can devastate the nations least a...

Mitigation, in support of those most vulnerable states. for mitigation, in support of those most vulnerable states.— vulnerable states. for our viewers, ex-lain vulnerable states. for our viewers, explain for — vulnerable states. for our viewers, explain for us _ vulnerable states. for our viewers, explain for us absolutely _ vulnerable states. for our viewers, explain for us absolutely clearly i explain for us absolutely clearly what adaptation means. what does it mean for grenade? grenada....

This cop26 summit before its too late? >> first of all, thank you for having me on, wolf. its very critical. i think most everybody understands that by this time. were using the thin shell of atmosphere surrounding our planet as if its an open sewer putting all of this heat-trapping pollution there. weve seen the consequences that the sciences predicted would occur all these heavy downpours and floods and droughts and hurricanes and sea level rise and all the rest. and so there is a widespread c...

It is time to say enough. enough of brutalising biodiversity, enough of killing ourselves with carbon, enough of treating nature like a toilet, enough of burning and drilling and mining our way deeper. we are digging our own graves. powerful words but with nearly 200 countries represented here, there are so many different agendas, that is why progress is usually slow. if you are sitting down, you can take your mask off and it is often in places like this that small, informal groups of negotiator...

We are digging our own graves. powerful words but with nearly 200 countries represented here, there are so many different agendas, that is why progress is usually slow. if you are sitting down, you can take your mask off and it is often in places like this that small, informal groups of negotiators will get together to try to crank the hardest questions like getting aid to the poorest nations who are hit hardest by climate change. ive seen for myself how droughts and other extremes of weather ca...

Think its fair to say a very gloomy boris johnson, british prime minister, spent much of his time at the g20 talking about the possibility and consequences of failure at glasgow. and we are told that that g20 meeting in rome was the first time that all members of the g20, collectively, responsible for some 80% of global emissions, now accept the science which says the world has to keep global -- the average-global temperature increase to within 1.5 and 2 degrees. thats not a new idea but were to...

Ive seen for myself how droughts and other extremes of weather can devastate the nations least able to cope. there was a promise of assistance more than a decade ago but it still hasnt been fulfilled. the faith in the international process, it becomes a little weaker, there is a lot of distrust, there is a lot of unhappiness because we keep saying everybody has to do this together but some have more responsibility than others. and while the talks are under way, the countries show off what they a...

Ready to play its part and to work with governments to find a way forward. your excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, many of your countries i know are already feeling the devastating impact of climate change through every increasing droughts, mudslides, floods, hurricanes, cyclones and wildfires, as we have just seen on that terrifying film. any leader who has had to confront such life—threatening challenges knows that the cost of inaction is far greater than the cost of prevention. so i can on...

Ar that the planet is still heading for almost five degrees of temperature rise. the floods, fires, droughts, icecap melt and sea level rise seen so far would be a small taste of the disasters to come. and the international cooperation that produced the landmark paris agreement isnt there this time. >> contrasting to where we were in the relationship between the united states and china, in 2015, the two of them walked in literally hand in hand, because over the previous years they had realized t...