These are the seven themes that are expected to dominate the upcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference.

Next week, government leaders will gather in Antalya, Turkey, for a major United Nations climate change conference. This meeting comes amid news that the Earth is warming at a dangerously fast rate. The United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP31) is expected to focus on how to curb rising greenhouse gas emissions, which experts say are overheating the planet and pushing it toward dangerous climate tipping points. “The science is clear. Despite some progress in recent years, the world is on the verge of surpassing 1.5°C of global warming,” said Martin Krause, director of the Climate Change Division of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). “We must make this overheating as small and short as possible. COP31 offers a crucial opportunity to turn climate change commitments into concrete action and begin to reverse the temperature rise.”

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