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U.S. President Obama stresses the urgency of curbing climate change and says that even when he leaves office, "change is going to be in all of our hands as citizens." Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
Greta Thunberg and other environmental activists gather outside the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg, northeastern France, which is due to rule in three separate cases to decide wether states are doing enough in the face of climate change. IMAGES
French President Emmanuel Macron meets family in New Caledonia impacted by climate change, after arriving in Touho earlier today. IMAGES
The city of Phoenix breaks a 49-year-old record with its 19th consecutive day of temperatures of 43.3 Celsius (110 Fahrenheit) or higher according to weather officials. IMAGES
French President Emmanuel Macron launches "a coalition of champions for the financing of natural capital" at the Elysée Palace, in the presence of Congolese President Denis Sassou Nguesso, Gabonese President Ali Bongo, Colombian President Gustavo Petro, World Bank President Ajay Banga and US Special Envoy for Climate Change John Kerry. IMAGES
Mairead McGuinness, the European Commissioner for Financial Services, Financial Stability, and Capital Markets Union, says that the European Commission's new label for sustainable finance sets out "how gas and nuclear could make a contribution in the difficult transition to climate neutrality", despite controversy over giving the sustainable finance label to both nuclear power and natural gas. Opponents of gas want to discourage investment in a fossil fuel technology they say only fuels the climate change crisis, while critics of nuclear energy point to the threat posed by accidents and nuclear waste. SOUNDBITE
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