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UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday told world leaders humanity's addiction to fossil fuels had "opened the gates to hell" as he kicked off a climate meeting where leading polluters China and the United States were conspicuously absent.

UNITED NATIONS, United States, (AFP) – United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday told world leaders the climate crisis had "opened the gates to hell" during a summit where leading...

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres yesterday told world leaders humanity’s addiction to fossil fuels had “opened the gates to hell” as he kicked off a climate meeting where leading polluters China and the United States were conspicuously absent.

China and the United States were conspicuously absent from the climate meeting where the United Nations secretary-general delivered his latest climate warning.

The UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, is hosting a climate meeting called the "Climate Ambition Summit," but it is marred by the absence of speakers from China and the United States. Guterres has set high standards for speakers, requiring concrete plans to achieve net-zero greenhouse emissions.

Makes clear only leaders who had made concrete plans to achieve net-zero greenhouse emissions would be allowed to speak.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is set Wednesday to host a climate meeting marred at its outset by the absence of speakers from the worlds top two emitters, China and the United States.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday told world leaders humanitys addiction to fossil fuels had "opened the gates to hell" as he kicked off a climate meeting where leading polluters

“We can still limit the rise in global temperature to 1.5 degrees and create a clean air, green job world," says Guterres.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday told world leaders humanity's addiction to fossil fuels had "opened the gates to hell" as he kicked off a climate meeting where leading polluters China and the United States were conspicuously absent. Despite increasing extreme weather events and record-shattering global temperatures, greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise and oil and gas companies reap handsome profits.