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| - Five years after the signing of the Paris climate agreement, extreme weather events, droughts, megastorms and heatwaves are on the rise. Signatories to the 2015 accord will meet at a virtual summit on Saturday, organised by the UN, France and the United Kingdom, hoping to breathe new life into the climate battle. Activists want world leaders to show ambition. If the Paris accord made it possible to "limit the damage", much more still needs to be done to leave Earth a liveable planet for future generations. Will post-pandemic recovery plans propel these ambitions? What future energies can world leaders rely on? How are renewables faring against fossil fuels? AFP has taken stock throughout the week. The package is accompanied by a series of striking videos, photographs and infographics focusing in particular on greenhouse gas emissions, melting ice, rising temperatures and state commitments to climate change. Today we are offering the following: + China's coal ambitions risk push for emission cuts + Finland: Clean energy challenges EU's peat burning capital Climate-UN-summit-China-coal-energy,FOCUS BEIJING China's plan to fund dozens of foreign coal plants from Zimbabwe to Indonesia is set to produce more emissions than those of major developed nations, threatening global efforts to fight climate change, environmentalists warn. 700 words by Helen Roxburgh with Poornima Weerasekara in Colombo. Picture. File picture. File video Climate-UN-summit-Finland-energy,FOCUS SIPPOLA, Finland On a barren expanse of bog in southeast Finland, Taisto Raussi's harvester hoovers up a thin layer of rich peat to be sold as fuel. But his Nordic country is caught in dispute over a source of energy more polluting than coal. 860 words By Sam Kingsley. Picture. Video We have previously moved: Climate-UN-summit,ADVANCER Climate-UN-summit-emissions,FACTS Climate-UN-summit-energy-disasters,FACTS Climate-UN-summit-youth,FOCUS Climate-UN-summit-economy,FOCUS Climate-UN-summit-emissions,WRAP Climate-UN-summit-netzero,FOCUS Climate-UN-summit-hydrogen,FACTS Climate-UN-summit-carbon,FOCUS Climate-UN-summit-fuel,FACTS afp
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