'NDCs 3.0': UN climate chief appeals for 'ambitious, economy-wide' national climate action plans

Cecilia Keating
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Next round of five-year climate plans will be 'most important climate documents produced so far this century’, Simon Stiell warns

The UN's climate chief has urged countries to step up their decarbonisation efforts, as the deadline for publishing the next wave of national five-year climate plans draws closer. In a letter sent to...

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