Choose climate solidarity or collective suicide, UN chief tells world leaders, At negotiations on halting global warming on Monday in Egypt, UN chief Antonio Guterres warned that humanity must “cooperate or perish” in the face of escalating climate change repercussions.
Choose climate solidarity or collective suicide, UN chief tells world leaders
The world is currently engaged in “the fight of our lives,” according to Guterres, amid a barrage of international crises, including the Covid pandemic, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and weather extremes that are destroying economies and upending international relations. In the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheik, he addressed the UN COP27 summit, saying, “Humanity has a choice: cooperate or perish.” “It’s either a Collective Suicide Pact or a Climate Solidarity Pact.”
To reduce emissions and keep global warming to the more ambitious Paris Agreement target of 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, Guterres called for an “historic” agreement between developed nations and developing economies. He stated that given the course things are going in, “we are
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