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Cars drive along the roads through high-rise buildings in the haze in the central business district (CBD) in Beijing. The world must slash its emissions of planet-warming greenhouse gases by 7.6 percent every year to 2030 or miss the chance to avert devastating climate change, the United Nations said on November 26, 2019.
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A thick layer of pollution hanging over the Seoul skyline. In its annual Emissions Gap report, the UN's Environment Programme said anything short of a drastic and immediate drawdown in fossil fuel use worldwide would put the Paris treaty temperature cap of 1.5C "out of reach".
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A junk sails past the city's skyline shrouded in a dense blanket of toxic smog in Hong Kong.
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A commuter bus running on diesel fuel emits thick trail of pollutants in Jakarta.
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The cracked riverbed due to drought in the Guadalteba reservoir, in Los Campillos.
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An Indian farmer walks across the bed of a pond built under an Indian government scheme that has dried out during a water crisis in Katra village, 45km from Allahabad.
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This aerial photo taken shows cattle on a dry paddock in the drought-hit area of Quirindi in New South Wales.
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Birds fly as smoke billows from a fire in a landfill on the outskirts of Ahmedabad.
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Smoke billowing from the refinery of the Pond of Berre in Marignane.
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Icebergs break off the Vatnajokull Glacier before floating to sea.
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Aerial view of deforestation in the Western Amazon region of Brazil.
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Aletsch glacier above Bettmeralp, Swiss Alps, which could completely disappear by the end of this century if nothing is done to rein in climate change.
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