U.N. normal meeting Faces local weather trade, Covid-19 and New Tensions

Are definite storms, fires or droughts related to local weather alternate? due to a relatively new field called attribution science, climate consultants are actually more able to deliver answers. WSJ's Daniela Hernandez explains. Illustration: Adele Morgan

WASHINGTON—World leaders gathering this week for an annual United countries assembly will confront persisting international problems equivalent to Covid-19 and climate trade, whereas grappling with new tensions and conflicts dividing U.N. participants.

Diplomats and leaders attending the U.N. standard assembly in manhattan will additionally deal with the return to vigour of the Taliban and the humanitarian circumstance in Afghanistan, as neatly as the challenge posed through Iran under a new, challenging-line president, Ebrahim Raisi.