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A protest takes place in central Stockholm for the Fridays for Future event started by teenage activist Greta Thunberg. Around the world, young people are heeding her rallying cry and joining protests to raise awareness of climate issues. IMAGES
Madrid, Jul 3 (EFE).- (Camera: Juan Yagüe). United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres warned the world is at the “verge of the abyss” regarding climate change and called for immediate action by countries, companies, banks and society as a whole.SOUNDBITES OF THE UN SECRETARY GENERAL, ANTONIO GUTERRES.
Extinction Rebellion stage protest in Carbis Bay, Cornwall urging for G7 action on climate change. IMAGES
Steven A Henry via Getty Images Scott Stringer, an early front-runner for New York City mayor, pledged to completely phase out fossil fuels, drive private utility companies out of the nation’s largest metropolis, and “electrify everything” in a near total embrace of climate activists’ demands ahead of this year’s election. The 34-page proposal Stringer laid out Sunday would transform the five boroughs, glazing the rooftops with solar panels and battery units, prioritizing bike lanes and pedestrian walkways over highways, and providing new programs to make electricity cheaper and green jobs more plentiful for the city’s squeezed working class.
While President Donald Trump sends his lawyers hither-and-yon to try to overturn the election, President-elect Joe Biden has been busy filling Cabinet slots. HuffPost reports Biden named John Kerry on Monday as his special envoy on climate. He's tasked the former secretary of state with steering a 180-degree turn in US diplomacy on the issue. Kerry will also be advising the incoming Biden administration on the security challenges a warming planet poses. America will soon have a government that treats the climate crisis as the urgent national security threat it is. Kerry will represent the US at a moment that scholars increasingly see as a period of American imperial decline amid unprecedented planetary changes.
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