CNN News:联合国大会开幕 宗教自由和气候

religious freedom and the global climate. On Monday, U.S. President Donald Trump hosted an event calling for countries worldwide to stop committing crimes against people of faith and to get rid of laws that restrict the freedom of religion. While that meeting was being held, the U.N.'s Climate Action Summit was going on. It was focused on the issues of global temperatures and carbon emissions. Coal is a part of this. It's the main source of electricity for the world. It's significantly cheaper than most other forms of energy. And there's a lot of it.

But environmentalists say it's dirty and that burning coal to produce electricity is doing long term damage to the global environment. The Secretary General, the leader of the United Nations, wants countries to stop building coal plants and to reduce their dependence on the fossil fuel. And some nations like Germany have committed billions of dollars to doing this.