U.S. proud to be back in climate fight, Kerry tells leaders by Reuters
Monday, 25 January 2021 15:35 GMT
FILE PHOTO: Former U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry speaks at an event of the World War Zero climate coalition during the U.N. Climate Change Conference (COP25) in Madrid, Spain December 11, 2019. REUTERS/Susana Vera/File Photo
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By Bart H. Meijer
AMSTERDAM, Jan 25 (Reuters) - The United States is proud to be back in international efforts to tackle global warming, Washington s new special climate envoy John Kerry told a summit of world leaders on Monday.
More than 3,000 scientists on Friday called for a far bigger global push to protect people and nature from the effects of a heating planet, even as researchers estimated funding to adapt to climate change has dropped because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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ROTTERDAM, Netherlands, Jan. 21, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Today, five Nobel Laureates and more than 3,000 scientists from over 100 countries signed up to the Groningen Science Declaration calling on world leaders, decision-makers and investors, to change the way we understand, plan and invest for a changing climate to ensure we limit future damage. The signing took place ahead of the virtual Climate Adaptation Summit (CAS 2021) on 25
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The statement, initiated by Patrick Verkooijen, CEO of Global Center on Adaptation (GCA), is released as figures from the first GCA State and Trends in Adaptation 2020 report show that climate adaptation is likely to have suffered a single-digit percentage fall in 2020 and that global climate adaptation funding needs to increase ten-fold, to US$300 billion a year, to meet estimates of what is needed to respond to escalating climate risks.
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