The US President said the sole threat to humanity’s existence is climate change, and 'there’s a lot we can do in the meantime”. Read more at straitstimes.com.
HANOI – United States President Joe Biden said the sole threat to humanity’s existence is climate change, and that not even nuclear conflict poses a similar danger.
The President added that “we’re going to be in real trouble” if, in the next decade or two, warming goes abovethat scientists consider a tipping point for increasing the chances of extreme weather events. Mr Biden spoke following the Group of 20 summit in India, where leaders agreed to a series of climate actions, including a pledge to triple renewable energy capacity by the end of the decade.
The US has suffered more than a dozen billion-dollar severe weather events in 2023, according to the US National Centres for Environmental Information.
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