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UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said it was absolutely essential that the Paris climate agreement be implemented, as the United States weighed pulling out of the emissions-cutting deal.
In his first major address on climate, Guterres yesterday said at New York University that the world must fulfill the commitments of the 2015 agreement with increased ambition.
The Paris agreement’s commitment to curb carbon emissions and limit temperature rise to well below 2 degrees and as close as possible to 1.5 degrees.
At a summit meeting of the G7 group of leading economies over the weekend, Trump refused to join the other six leaders in pledging to implement the Paris accord and said he would announce the US position this week.