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United Nations Secretary-General warns world is on a "highway to climate hell"

COP27 Climate Summit

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres gives a press conference with Prime Minister of Pakistan Muhammad Shehbaz Sharifat the 2022 United Nations climate conference, COP27, in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, South Sinai, Egypt, Monday, Nov. 7, 2022. (AP Photo/Thomas Hartwell) Source: AAP / Thomas Hartwell/AP

World leaders have heard perhaps the most alarming language yet from the Secretary-General of the United Nations, about the need to address climate change as quickly as possible. UN Chief Antonio Guterres used his opening address to the COP27 summit, to warn that the world is "on a highway to climate hell".



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