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Greta Thunberg and other environmental activists gather outside the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg, northeastern France, which is due to rule in three separate cases to decide wether states are doing enough in the face of climate change. IMAGES
"We do not need more warnings. The dystopian future is already here," UN right chief Volker Turk tells the United Nations Human Rights Council during the opening its the 54th session in Geneva. Climate change is sparking human rights emergencies in many countries, the UN rights chief added, also decrying widespread "nonchalance" to surging deaths of migrants. SOUNDBITE
A cloud of smoke covers La Orotava, a village in northern Tenerife, at dawn, after wildfire that has raged for a week on the holiday island and forced thousands of people to flee. On August 22, authorities said Spanish firefighters were gaining the upper hand in their battle against the blaze, which broke out late August 15 in an area of steep ravines and cliffs in the northeast of the island, part of Spain's Canary Islands archipelago off the northwestern coast of Africa. IMAGES
Carlo Buontempo, director of the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), says it is virtually certain that the high temperatures in July mean that "the month as a whole will become the warmest July on record, the warmest month on record". The top 21 hottest days have "all occurred this month", he adds. SOUNDBITE
French President Emmanuel Macron meets family in New Caledonia impacted by climate change, after arriving in Touho earlier today. IMAGES
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