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“We do not want that dreaded death sentence and we have come here today to say: try harder.”
Source: Address at the opening ceremony of the COP26 World Leaders Summit, Glasgow, 1 November 2021
Context Opening the leaders’ summit, she pressed major emitters to hold warming to 1.5°C, warning that 2°C would doom small island and other vulnerable states.
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