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Southeast Asian nations are speeding up their plans to transmit renewable energy through a proposed regional power grid, with first trials set for 2022, as the area strives to meet climate change targets, government and company officials said.
The announcements come ahead of the UN COP26 climate summit starting on October 31 in Glasgow, considered one of the last opportunities for countries to announce firm targets for cutting emissions this decade.British naturalist David Attenborough warned world leaders on Tuesday, October 26, it would be too late to tackle climate change if a UN climate summit in Scotland does not succeed, and said richer nations had a moral responsibility to act.
Attenborough, 95, told the BBC it would be"really catastrophic" if richer nations failed to support poorer ones, and time was running out. Attenborough said leading nations had a duty to help poorer countries because industrialization had been one of the major factors in driving climate change. He warned that whole parts of Africa would become unlivable.
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