Brazil's Lula promises 'COP of Truth' as UN warns of dangerously high emissions


A view shows emissions from the chimneys of Yara France plant in Montoir-de-Bretagne near Saint-Nazaire, France, March 4, 2022. REUTERS/Stephane Mahe

BELEM/SAO PAULO (Reuters) -With a U.N. report warning that worldwide carbon emissions remain too high to halt global warming, Brazil’s president said on Tuesday that this month’s U.N. climate changesummit in the Amazon would be a "COP of Truth" and offer real solutions.

Despite three decades of global negotiations, countries will not prevent warming from exceeding 1.5 degrees Celsius – the main goal of the Paris Agreement brokered a decade ago. Instead, the world is on track for an extreme 2.3 - 2.5°C of warming, theUnited Nations' Environment Programme said on Tuesday.

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