Kathmandu, Sept. 22 -- The United Nations General Assembly is convening just six weeks ahead of the UN'sCOP26 climate conferencein Glasgow, and follows a stark warning from the United Nations last week that the voluntary Nationally Determined Commitments (NDCs) by countries is not at all enough to stop cataclysmic climate collapse.

The UN collated the pledges by the world's 191 countries and projected that the earth's surface would be 2.7 Celsius hotter by 2100. This warning is even starkerthan the report to governmentsby the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) last month that laid out abest-case scenario in which despite reduced greenhouse gas emissions, global average temperature was still set to exceed 1.5degC by the tur...