Description
Added on the 16/05/2023 20:50:24 - Copyright : Euronews EN
At an environmental summit in Vienna founded and hosted by Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Austrian-born actor and former Governor of California calls for urgent action on the climate "emergency", adding that "lives depend" on tackling the issue. Schwarzenegger, a seven-time Mr Olympia champion widely recognised as one of the greatest bodybuilders of all time, founded the annual Austrian World Summit in 2017 to bring together a broad coalition for climate action.
Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg says public figures have "failed to take" responsibility when it comes to fighting climate change. She was speaking at a summit organised by Hollywood star and former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Austria
The Africa Climate Summit has brought together African leaders, with a goal of defining a shared vision for green development on the continent of 1.4 billion people ahead of the COP28 meeting in Dubai later this year. With climate change eating away at Africa's GDP, a point highlighted by the summit's host, Kenya President William Ruto, FRANCE 24's Annette Young is joined by Dr. Chukwumerije Okereke, Professor Chukwumerije Okereke, Professor in Global Governance & Public Policy in the School for Policy Studies at the University of Bristol in the UK.
Eight Amazon nations called on industrialized countries to do more to help preserve the world's largest rainforest as they met at a major summit in Brazil to chart a common course on how to combat climate change.
A number of London police have stepped back from firearms duties after a fellow officer was charged with murder over the fatal shooting of a young black man, a force spokesman said Sunday. Police in Britain are not routinely armed and the small proportion who are authorised to carry guns are highly trained.