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World Service,20 Oct 2021,49 mins

UN: Climate pledges won't be met with planned fossil fuel extraction

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The UN says plans by governments to continue to extract fossil fuels up to 2030 are incompatible with keeping global temperatures to safe levels. We hear from a NASA climate scientist. A new report says many European countries returning Syrian refugees are sending them back to face torture and even death. We speak to its author. And we have the latest on the kidnapping at the week-end of missionaries and their families in Haiti.

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