Climate pledges 'not enough' to avoid catastrophe, UN says

Government pledges made so far are not enough to avoid irreversible catastrophic damage to the world's climate, but the bottom-up approach to climate diplomacy has yielded better results than ever before, the UN's climate chief Christina Figueres said on Friday (30 October).

Figueres made her remarks at a press conference presenting the findings of a UN report aggregating 146 countries' climate...