'I am hoping that the sheer reality will help us change people's moves and change the politics,' one Greenpeace adviser said.
"We know that our environment is burning. It's melting. It's flooding. It's depleting. It's drying. It's dying," Türk said during his remarks Monday.
"Vast territories would disappear under rising oceans, or become effectively uninhabitable, due to heat and lack of water," he said. "More than 828 million people faced hunger in 2021," he said."And climate change is projected to place up to 80 million more people at risk of hunger by the middle of this century—creating a truly terrifying scale of desperation and need."
"It was very detached from what was going on outside of the building in Bonn—I was very disappointed by that," Li Shuo, Greenpeace's senior climate adviser in Beijing, toldThe next major international climate conference—COP28—begins in the United Arab Emirates in late November, but campaigners are
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