MADRID, Dec. 2-- The United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP25) opened here on Monday, where delegates are discussing measures to implement the 2017 Paris Agreement amid unclear prospects and challenges to multilateralism. The opening ceremony began with a warning from Hoesung Lee, chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC): "If we continue as we are doing, we run the risk of increasing the temperature of the planet and that will have an effect and terrible consequences for humanity and threaten our existence." "We are not doing enough and we are not even getting close to what we need to do to control this situation," he said. |