Top UN Climate Advisor Joins the Chorus telling Australia to Cut Coal

Top UN Climate Advisor Joins the Chorus telling Australia to Cut Coal
The United Nations logo at the U.N. headquarters in New York City in October 2016. Lewis Tse Pui Lung/Adobe Stock
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Another top United Nations (UN) official will join the international chorus telling Australia it must rapidly phase out coal or else it could suffer devastating climate change consequences.

The messages follow the release of the sixth assessment report by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which concluded that it was “unequivocal that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean and land.”

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