Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) noted that the level of ambition, currently on the table, amounted to only 60 per cent of what was needed to limit the temperature increase to the agreed 2 degrees but stressed that a 2 degree increase was no guarantee for the survival of small island states. She pointed out that no agreement was reached on the year in which global emissions needed to peak. ’This is contrary to (…)