UN chief convenes 'no-nonsense' climate summit, without China or US - World
Makes clear only leaders who had made concrete plans to achieve net-zero greenhouse emissions would be allowed to speak.
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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 world's top two emitters, China and the United States.
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
“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.