SYDNEY: Tens of thousands marched across Australia yesterday on a third day of worldwide rallies as pressure mounts on global leaders to strike a pact on cutting greenhouse gases at crucial talks in still-shaken Paris.
Some 150 leaders, including US President Barack Obama, China’s Xi Jinping, India’s Narendra Modi and Russia’s Vladimir Putin, are attending the start today of the UN conference, hoping to reach the first truly universal climate pact.
The goal is to limit average global warming to 2C, perhaps less, over pre-Industrial Revolution levels by curbing fossil fuel emissions blamed for climate change.