A UN report shows climate change’s escalating toll on people and nature
The window to reduce emissions and avoid most disastrous consequences is closing fast, experts say
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Those people who are most vulnerable to climate change are being hit the hardest, a new United Nations’ climate report emphasizes. In the Maldives (shown), communities are losing their coastlines to erosion and rising sea levels.
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