Leaders at the G20 meeting in Bali on Wednesday agreed to pursue efforts to limit the rise in global temperatures to 1.5 degrees Celsius and recognized the need to speed up efforts to phase down coal use, in a potential boost to the COP27 climate talks.
Delegates at the U.N. climate summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, where progress towards an agreement by the end of the week has been slow, have beensummit closely for signs that developed nations are willing to make new commitments on climate.
World governments agreed in 2015 during a U.N. summit in France to try to limit the average global temperature increase to 1.5C above pre-industrial times, a deal dubbed the Paris Agreement that was seen as a breakthrough in international climate ambition. The G20 declaration urged delegates at COP27 to "urgently scale up" efforts at the summit on the issue of mitigating and adapting to climate change.
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