U.S. Climate Report, U.N. Review Seek To Add Urgency To Dubai Summit

The just-released fifth edition of the National Climate Assessment (NCA) is projecting increasingly dire economic and other damages from climate change, findings that Biden administration officials hope will bolster the case for stronger climate policies at the upcoming international climate summit in Dubai later this year. “Without rapid and deep reductions in global greenhouse gas emissions from human activities, the risks of accelerating sea level rise, intensifying extreme weather, and other harmful climate impacts will continue to grow,” says the...