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Countries committed to climate plans despite US exiting Paris pact: UN official
The Straits Times
|February 08, 2025
He encourages them to submit stronger plans in 2025 to reap 'massive rewards'
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BRASILIA Countries are staying committed to their national climate plans and looking to lead the clean energy transition as the US plans to exit the Paris climate agreement, the UN's top climate official said in his first speech of the year on Feb 6.
Mr Simon Stiell, executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), laid out priorities ahead of annual climate talks in November, and encouraged countries to prepare stronger national climate plans in 2025, even after US President Donald Trump said he will remove the world's second-biggest greenhouse gas emitter from the Paris Agreement.
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