Climate at heart of UN meeting

Leaders to meet this week to plot course on global effort

BERLIN - With global temperatures rising, superstorms taking their deadly toll and a year-end deadline to firm up the Paris climate deal, leaders at this year's UN General Assembly are feeling a sense of urgency to keep up the momentum on combating climate change.

That's why, in between discussing how to tackle wars, poverty and deadly diseases around the world, leaders will be devoting substantial time in New York this week to the question of global warming and how to rein it in.