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Some 20 world leaders pose for a family photo at the opening of an international conference on Libya, hosted by French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris, aimed at ensuring the North African nation sticks to a plan to hold elections in December and turn a new page after a decade of violent conflict. IMAGES
President-elect Joe Biden plans to start transforming America's stance on the global stage with a series of day-one executive actions. CNN reports Biden's transition team is beginning to turn his campaign-trail promises into plans he can implement early in his presidency. Sources say Biden's first focus is likely to be the worsening coronavirus pandemic. He is set to name a 12-person coronavirus task force on Monday. Biden intends to rejoin the Paris climate accord, a landmark international deal to combat climate change that Trump exited in 2017. The president-elect has also said he would rejoin the World Health Organization, which President Donald Trump moved to withdraw from this year.
Pope Francis is among those displaying 10,000 pairs of shoes on the Place de la Republique, after a giant climate change march in Paris was canceled because of security concerns. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
Attending world leaders and delegates pose for a family photo during the United Nations Climate Change Summit COP28 in Dubai. IMAGES
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres says the world is racing toward a climate change disaster and dismissed the global response as woefully inadequate. He says current climate policies are taking the world to a 2.8-degree temperature rise by the end of the century. "That spells catastrophe. Yet the collective response remains pitiful," Guterres tells a news conference. SOUNDBITE
Humanity must "cooperate or perish" in the face of accelerating climate change impacts, UN chief Antonio Guterres tells world leaders at talks in Egypt on curbing global warming. SOUNDBITE
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