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Climate activists stage a protest inside the COP29 venue to demand phase out of fossil fuels during the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP29) in Baku on November 15, 2024. [AFP]
Even before world leaders convened in Baku, Azerbaijan, for COP29, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres issued a warning, describing the moment as humanity's "final countdown" to limit global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius, a threshold critical to preventing the most catastrophic impacts of climate change.
The World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) had confirmed an alarming reality of 2024 being on course to becoming the hottest year on record.
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