United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres convened the UN Climate Action Summit in New York to boost global climate ambition and rapidly accelerate action to implement the Paris Agreement and the 2030 Agenda.

Countries and stakeholders were invited to bring to the table their plans for enhancing action and accelerating transformative change to cut emissions and strengthen adaptation to the impacts of climate change.

The commitments undertaken at the Summit were impressive in numbers, in particular from the countries most affected to date by the impacts of climate change. Sixty-five countries and sub-national economies committed to cut greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050, while 70 countries announced they would boost their national action plans by 2020 or have started the process of doing so.

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