Early drafts of the Pact for the Future, a key United Nations document aimed at shaping the future of global cooperation, established an explicit link between climate change and efforts to deliver human peace and security.
But by the time the document was approved on Sunday, that language was gone, written out following staunch objections from Russia and other large emerging economies.
The Pact for the Future is a nonbinding U.N. agreement that set the stage for the Summit of the Future — an attempt by Secretary-General António Guterres to reboot multilateralism and secure his legacy.