Disasters ‘a call to action on climate change’
Speaking before some 40 countries were to address finance, an issue that has helped hamstring UN climate talks, Figueres said floods in Pakistan, fires in Russia and other weather disasters had been a shocking wak-up call.
“The news has been screaming that a future of intense, global climate disasters is not the future that we want,” Figueres, executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), told reporters.
