DHAKA: Nations launched a new round of talks on Monday for a 2015 deal to cut Earth-warming greenhouse gas emissions in the aftermath of a deadly Philippines typhoon the UN`s climate chief labelled ‘sobering’.

The 12-day United Nations talks opened amid a slew of warnings about potentially disastrous warming with increasingly extreme weather phenomena unless humankind changes its atmosphere-polluting, fossil-fuel burning ways.

‘What happens in this stadium is not a game. There are not two sides but the whole of humanity. There are no winners and losers, we all either win or lose in the future we make for ourselves,’ UN climate chief Christiana Figueres told climate negotiators, reports The Straits Times.

‘We gather today under the weight of many sobering realities,’ she added, the first being the new record of 400 parts per million of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere that was reached earlier this year.

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